Mercury S Your comment is wrong on so many points.- So do you draw the line at 10 billion?  What do you suggest when that threshold is reached?  Because this argument begins anew.- Look around you. If you do not recognize the ongoing sustainability crises we now face --- water depletion,  knock-on food insecurity, fragile supply chains, diminishing affordability/availability of shelter diminishing affordability of education etc etc --- if you do not recognize the immediacy of these issues NOW at 8 billion population, then your observation and judgement is impaired. - "Degrowth" as an expired idea from the past?  Hardly.  Population pressure as an existential problem has only a limited number of realistic solutions.  We aren't going to enlarge our planet and the Elon Musk interplanetary solution is just a CGI fantasy.  You prefer wars and pestilence as a solution?

Mercury S Your comment is wrong on so many points.- So do you draw the line at 10 billion?  What do you suggest when that threshold is reached?  Because this argument begins anew.- Look around you. If you do not recognize the ongoing sustainability crises we now face --- water depletion,  knock-on food insecurity, fragile supply chains, diminishing affordability/availability of shelter diminishing affordability of education etc etc --- if you do not recognize the immediacy of these issues NOW at 8 billion population, then your observation and judgement is impaired. - "Degrowth" as an expired idea from the past?  Hardly.  Population pressure as an existential problem has only a limited number of realistic solutions.  We aren't going to enlarge our planet and the Elon Musk interplanetary solution is just a CGI fantasy.  You prefer wars and pestilence as a solution?

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