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Re:Given the State of the World, Is It Irresponsible to Have... by thefz on Thursday September 26, 2019 @09:37AM (#21080751)
But to expect continuous growth in a finite system is naif, even accounting for optimization and reuse. As an example, a mass of x humans will still need x*1500 calories a day at least; the bigger x, the bigger the strain on the planet.
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Re:Given the State of the World, Is It Irresponsible to Have... by prepend on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:22PM (#21084487)
Who’s expecting continuous growth? Population tends to level out with urbanization and education.

Food can be grown much more efficiently. If we get to the point of needing 1500 calories then we’ll be drinking soylent and having offworld farms long before we break the world.

It’s such a phenomenally large population if you’re just trying to grow x*1500 calories that we can hit it in hundreds of years. So should not factor into anyone decision to have kids.

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