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Humans are selfish and just don't care. Once mother nature kills off most of our population, carbon will slow sequester itself and the earth will heal but it wi
by snarf21 6y ago
Humans are selfish and just don't care. Once mother nature kills off most of our population, carbon will slow sequester itself and the earth will heal but it will take centuries. The earth just can't sustain food and energy for 8B people. My guess it is more like 2B max.
- otikik 6y ago> can't sustain food and energy for 8B people It totally can. What it can't sustain is 8B people not working together.
- snarf21 6y agoThat is exactly my point. Humans are selfish. We have a history of destruction even at our own expense. I wish it were otherwise but wishing it doesn't make it so. I was merely saying at 2B the earth is okay despite us not caring or working together.
- anonuser123456 6y agoI would wager the earth can sustain 100 billion people and will eventually do so with technology.
- snarf21 6y agoCould you expound? Is this something you think possible in 20 years? 50? 1000?
- anonuser123456 6y agoSure. 1. Robotics will make the world rich enough. 2. Synthetic food (bioreactors) will make it cheap enough. 3. DT fusion + solar will power it. The technology part is less than 100 years away at scale. Probably less.