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Sorry, but that is unreasonable theory vs practice.. "by my metrics the world could support 150 billion people" but we don't even manage to put 8 altogether at
by throwbadubadu 3y ago
Sorry, but that is unreasonable theory vs practice.. "by my metrics the world could support 150 billion people" but we don't even manage to put 8 altogether at reasonable living standards while we dump the world into a climate catastrophe?
Why assume some tech that doesn't exist or couldn't be deployed at that scale? Even those crop yields are not sustainable long term.
- pfdietz 3y agoIt's a reasonable thought exercise to ask what the ultimate limits are if technology is allowed to vary. That's no more unreasonable than asking what the limit is if technology is completely frozen. The actual answer will be between the two.
- throwbadubadu 3y agoExactly, thought exercise == nice theory, but irrelevant for any practice right now.