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This is just doomer material not really based on any fundamental limits. If someone took the technology of the early 1900s and looked forward at the population

This is just doomer material not really based on any fundamental limits. If someone took the technology of the early 1900s and looked forward at the population growth, the conclusion would have been as bleak as yours, if not worse. Topsoil depletion isn’t a problem for people that know how to farm. Market forces will quickly incentivize people who don’t understand it when there is starvation at stake. Right now we have such an over abundance of affordable food that it’s just not a global threat. Freshwater access is likewise a complete non-issue at a global scale. The absolute worst case is people pay for it like in Israel with desalination, but there even in the US in the driest parts, we’re still arguing about letting farmers grow the dumbest crops possible for free.

cableshaft 3y ago
> Freshwater access is likewise a complete non-issue at a global scale. "Water scarcity affects roughly 40% of the world's population and, according to predictions by the United Nations and the World Bank, drought could put up to 700 million people at risk of displacement by 2030. People like van der Heijden are concerned about what that could lead to. "If there is no water, politicians are going to try and get their hands on it and they might start to fight over it," she says."[1] But no, a complete non-issue. Just build desalination plants, poor countries! [1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210816-how-water-shortages-are-brewing-wars https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210816-how-water-shorta...