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Only hundreds. Two centuries ago, the total human population was about 5% of today's population.
by inigyou 3mo ago
Only hundreds. Two centuries ago, the total human population was about 5% of today's population.
- RGamma 3mo agoYou'd still get regional overpopulation issues. E.g. the Justinian plague in 541 AD. That's still far away from mobile hunter gatherer tribes with densities of a few dozen people per 1-100 km^2. Homo sapiens is 300,000 years old, Homo erectus 2 million years. Modern civilization might not last on the order of 10,000 years, industrial civilization maybe not even 500 - or perhaps "forever", if we make it to controllable runaway technological improvement?
- rayiner 3mo agoWe have more forests today in Europe than we did 400 years ago.