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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by drb91 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @07:39AM (#18335557)
The earth definitely has a carrying capacity. Our ability to push our food production further doesn’t change this fact. I’ve seen around 10 billion people floated as a food production limit in several places.

Crossing this with climate change, particularly our love of beef and pork, is not easy to disentangle.

We may also never hit that carrying capacity if something else other than food supply limits our population growth—war, disease, artificial barriers to food (wealth inequality).

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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by afishisafish on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:23AM (#18335815)
Assuming that life expectancy will remain the same and that the number of children will also not change Hans Rosling predicted our world population never will exceed 11 billion people.

He was a very passionate and entertaining public speaker.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_...

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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by collyw on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:52AM (#18336004)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation

Carrying capacity is estimated at 7.7 billion. And I have seen that Hans Roslings predictions have been revised upwards. Doesn't look good either way.

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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by empath75 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:28AM (#18336228)
carrying capacity keeps getting revised upward also.
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by collyw on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:57AM (#18336486)
Sure, but what's the end goal? That we all end up like caged chickens? We could probably cram in lots of people that way.
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by drb91 on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:59PM (#18339526)
IMHO the idea of a goal is an attractive illusion.
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by Jach on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:59AM (#18336034)
Does anything in his talk refute the UN projection of over 11 billion people by 2100? https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/world...
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Re:Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major r... by stephengillie on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @08:25AM (#18335820)
Most countries are already below the replacement rate. America fell below 2 children per couple in the 1970s, and it's only through immigration that our population bubble continues to inflate.
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