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Well, I guess we can all agree that our planet cannot support X amount of people with a certain quality of life and sustainably for the then-on future Parent p
by gota 3y ago
Well, I guess we can all agree that our planet cannot support X amount of people with a certain quality of life and sustainably for the then-on future
Parent post hints that X < 10B, but I'd wager many believe X < whatever we have now
It is obvious Earth could hold a very large human population - but not for very long, and not (for those people) very well
- throwaw1yyy 3y agostill could, you need a bigger imagination!
- autoexec 3y agoThis is exactly the problem. It's not about how many bodies we can stack on top of each other, it's how many people can this one specific area sustainably support, knowing that the number we come up with will fluctuate with time and circumstance and that same calculation has to be made for every "area" we care to define. It's a highly complex problem. As resources like clean drinking water get more and more scarce, and climate change and the refugees it produces cause all of us to pack into smaller and smaller areas we'll need to start paying more and more attention to this to make sure that we're not destroying what resources we still have.