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How many ships do you figure the US built in one month during WW2?
If you include those haulers that stayed in service for way too long, it was nearing a hundred.
They were making almost 60 Liberty Ships a month at the peak. Something like 40 days for a whole ship to be built in a single drydock. With 18 shipyards running multiple drydocks each building them.
It’s a mind blowing figure. The raw tonnage of something innocuous like burlap to make into sandbags between 1942-1945 breaks my brain. Sometimes when I want to feel a glimmer of hope I look at that kind of production and say “yeah, we can totally meet the challenges of climate change, humans move literal mountains when we work together.”
The bad news is that this level of industrial production was entirely possible because a bunch of factories had been dormant but not demolished for at most a decade due to the depression. The current level of production that would theoretically be possible would be a mere fraction of what was done in 1942-1945.