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> The current population is not even sustainable. If you make a certain set of highly unrealistic assumptions about what "sustainable" requires, yes. If you l

by pdonis 5y ago

> The current population is not even sustainable. If you make a certain set of highly unrealistic assumptions about what "sustainable" requires, yes. If you look at how human history has actually gone, you find that doomsayers in every time could find trends that, if projected out forever into the future, looked "unsustainable". And of course, if those trends had continued as they were, it would not have been sustainable. But the trends never continued as they were. We humans can adapt to change by changing how we do things. Claims that our current population, or indeed any current human activity, is "unsustainable" ignore that crucial fact.

Glavnokoman 5y ago
That's just a selection bias. No reasonable conclusion can be driven from all that. Even if you believe that extrapolation like that could make any sense.
- pdonis 5y ago
  If your argument were valid, it would apply to any attempt to draw conclusions based on past experience. Which means your argument can't be valid, since we can draw valid conclusions based on past experience.