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Cities still produce a lot of waste each day. The theory of infinite growth on a finite planet is failed from birth, but there are still supporters of a 10-20 b
by AdrianB1 7y ago
Cities still produce a lot of waste each day. The theory of infinite growth on a finite planet is failed from birth, but there are still supporters of a 10-20 billion population. The result: lots of waste and pollution.
- hanniabu 7y agoI agree with you, granted there's many efficiencies that can be made that would likely make 10-20B doable.
- TeMPOraL 7y ago0.5-3x is a large range to talk about what's not doable.
- AdrianB1 7y agoIt is not about making it doable, the questions are: is it needed? is it worth it? what will be the quality of life in a world with 20 billion? Every big city has a housing crisis already, how is this solved for 20 billions? What about energy and waste?
- hanniabu 7y agoLike I said, there are many efficiencies that could be made. The burden wouldn't be that much different than now. The world is extremely inefficient.
- oezi 7y agoCheck out Hans Rosling's arguments why the population growth uncertainty is mostly over (he estimates that we won't go much over 11 billion).
- cryptoz 7y agoI am curious about the black swan events potentially changing this calculus; i.e. food replicators or tricorder-like medical help, or breakthroughs in life extension biotect, etc. Hans Rosling knows far more than I do about all this, but I'm curious how it will all play out. Maybe there will be no such black swan events affecting population growth.