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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by matte_black on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:23PM (#16226907)
Education is not the savior. There is a physical limit to resources here on this Earth. There is only so much food we can make, only so many jobs we can create.

The only way to manage population is to control breeding. That is not a scaleable solution.

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by swsieber on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:57PM (#16227138)
Well... not directly. But in societies with more education, the birth rate is lower. Some countries have already dipped below a self-sustaining birth rate.
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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by stale2002 on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:06PM (#16227192)
Yeah there is indeed a physical limit to human population.

And that physical limit is much closer to 100 billion people, than it is to 1 billion.

Population growth is already on the downward trend, and we are expected to reach population growth neutrality by 2040.

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by justadudeama on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:12PM (#16227229)
Do you have some sources on the max amount of people on Earth? Just curious.
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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by Angostura on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:33PM (#16226993)
> Education is not the savior.

Unless you can educate the world that the Earth has limited carrying capacity and that GDP and population growth aren't necessarily the be-all and end-all.

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by groby_b on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:21PM (#16227280)
Malthus called, he wants you to read up on the 20th century.
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