Just to be clear - I think that advances in population are due mainly to the influence of fossil fuels on agriculture and logistics. Because food. The other thi

Just to be clear - I think that advances in population are due mainly to the influence of fossil fuels on agriculture and logistics. Because food. The other things are clean water and medical advances, which ... I don't know how you'd show those to be related to fossil fuels so much outside of that the engineering culture has much in common, and they'd be hard to do without readily available power sources. I suspect they're entangled, but that's really just a guess. A really TL;DR guess... As a "people", I owe my existence partially to the fact that there are more of us. And were it not for antibiotics, chances are that I would have died at six months old. That's one of the big reasons there are so many of us. The race between making heck-holes less heckish and CO2 is a profound one. We'll see. I was saddened to see China use American affinity for cars - I'd thought they could do it better.