A perspective on population growth that I haven’t seen before. It’s very long, so the tl;dr as I understand it is:
- Humanity has always survived through technological progress to support an increased number of people. Technology changes the carrying capacity of an environment.
- Whether or not we’ll be able to do this forever is unknown.
The underlying article itself has a lot more history and nuggets of information beyond this summary!
- Humanity has always survived through technological progress to support an increased number of people. Technology changes the carrying capacity of an environment.
- Whether or not we’ll be able to do this forever is unknown.
The underlying article itself has a lot more history and nuggets of information beyond this summary!