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This is not a law of nature, it is history as it unfolded in the twentieth century. We don't know if that'll continue to hold or not.
by mola 6y ago
This is not a law of nature, it is history as it unfolded in the twentieth century.
We don't know if that'll continue to hold or not.
- Retric 6y agoYea, but it’s still an open question when or if this stabilizes. A global population of between something like 100 million to 10 billion could sustain an advanced technical society capable of innovation. But, where slowly oscillating between say 1 and 2 billion people would be fine, regular massive population crashes could represent a great filter which generally prevents interstellar civilizations.