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> How's that?
We would have to exploit more of biosphere (rather then augment the parts of biosphere that we already use with such things as mineral fertilizers). We would need to use much more arable land, destroying remaining wilderness. The total efficiency of anything we do would be greatly reduced. Mass starvation would follow really fast.
Apparently no more then the half of current Earth population would be alive now if not for this invention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process ( Vaclav Smil, http://www.amazon.com/Creating-Twentieth-Century-Innovations-Revolutions/dp/0195168747 )
Industrial agriculture allows as to have much lower impact on biosphere that would be possible otherwise.