> Scientists have known for many decades that Earth is already beyond its carrying capacity. People were saying this before the Enlightenment. There is no evid

> Scientists have known for many decades that Earth is already beyond its carrying capacity. People were saying this before the Enlightenment. There is no evidence that this is true. Our population is probably not sustainable with the way that we currently treat the environment, but that doesn't mean we can't evolve our sophistication. This has been the same forever. Alternatively, a population on earth of 50 people is arguably not sustainable if they spend their efforts trying to kill each other with the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons. There's no such thing as an inherent carrying capacity of people irrespective of technology or total biomass.