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And in our traditional lack of foresight we forgot to account how such medical advances would explode the population count and now there are more humans than ra
by mattigames 3y ago
And in our traditional lack of foresight we forgot to account how such medical advances would explode the population count and now there are more humans than rats, it should have been obvious that more contraceptives would be needed (including promiting their usage of course); now we have many one problems thanks to such carelessness, global warming being the biggest one.
- Vecr 3y agoI don't think that's actually true, people knew about the population increase, and eventually the obvious problem with food was worked on (machines to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere, pesticides, large farming machinery, weather prediction, record keeping and communication, futures). A population level of at least 7 billion is probably required if you want people to have the specialization and research capacity of 2018, even with education and medical improvements (that have actually gotten worse since 2018).
- Turskarama 3y agoWhat you need is enough people with access to education, and enough of a safety net to risk innovation. Given that there are a lot of people in the world who still have no access to a university level education and are living paycheck to paycheck, I'd speculate that you could possibly get away with half or even less the 2018 population in order to maintain 2018 technology in a system that actually worked on merit.