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Environment & Energy

The_jackalope

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13. The planet can't even support 7+billion people un-sustainably.

Reply to Calculating (Reply #12)

Tue May 28, 2019, 01:59 PM

May 2019

The truly sustainable population of the planet is probably no more than 100 million hunter-foragers. But once the current cycle of civilization gets done raping the place, it will probably support a tenth of that.

The prospects for humans worldwide to decide to stop having kids are vanishingly remote.

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"All of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years" [View all] Duppers May 2019 OP

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Soylent green is people Billy Ray Joe Bob. May 2019 #2

Check out TED Alan Savory MasonDreams May 2019 #3

AND the Mercer's are it again Linda Ed May 2019 #4

Oh good. Something new to worry about Kablooie May 2019 #5

The Sahara Desert in Africa was supposedly green and lush farmland milennia ago. no_hypocrisy May 2019 #6

i dont understand the hand wringing here. making soil is easy. mopinko May 2019 #7

Neither are comparable with how modern ag works NickB79 May 2019 #8

municipal composting can produce huge quantities. mopinko May 2019 #9

Farmers in poor nations use composting as much as they can, Progressive dog May 2019 #10

um mopinko May 2019 #11

Oh joy, another overpopulation problem Calculating May 2019 #12

The planet can't even support 7+billion people un-sustainably. The_jackalope May 2019 #13

Deforestation is the worst Bayard May 2019 #14

Not to mention removing great amounts of oxygen-making Duppers May 2019 #15