• Toes♀@ani.social
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    10 months ago

    So does that mean the maximum population of our planet is about ~30 billion people?

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      10 months ago

      Probably not because that 30% is an average of different resources.

      For example. Let’s say you have two resources:

      • A - 10% of the current production of A is enough for the current pops
      • B - 50% of the current production of B is enough for the current pops

      Both average to 30%. If you multiply the population by 3, you still have a surplus of A, but now there isn’t enough B.

      Another concern is that increasing the population so much would force unsustainable approaches to resource extraction. In other words: 30 billion people living fine and dandy for a generation or two, and then their descendants living in a hellhole.