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> We're simply in a place right now where it's hard to imagine with our current level of technology and our current energy economy. ...and the fact we have abo
by DanBC 7y ago
> We're simply in a place right now where it's hard to imagine with our current level of technology and our current energy economy.
...and the fact we have about 4bn more people here than we did in 1960.
- dragonwriter 7y agoWe have far fewer people than growth rate at the time suggested; IIRC, around that time growth was viewed as exponential with a doubling period of ~35 years, had it continued the population would be 10.74 bn now, nearly 1.5× what it. So, no, population (at least high population) isn't something that was unforeseen.