• ripcord@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Waiting for a bunch of people to show up and make a big thing about how the earth can support billions more, up to 100 billion or something.

    They weirdly seem to show up every time someone suggests that either we should stop growing or maybe even shrink for a while.

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      11 months ago

      It actually can. Check out SFIA’s “a trillion people on earth” video.

      It requires no new tech, but does require some refinment of already existing tech. More unrealisticly, it requires massive logistical and financial cooperation.

      Can it? In theory yes

      Should it? Oh God no, no more humans plz

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        11 months ago

        Right but people get really upset at the idea of no growth or reducing the human population, even.

        I mentioned it once and several people called me a eugenicist, for example. Just made the point that if we had, say, half as many people, then it’d go a long way to help with things like pollution, resource issues, mass extinction, and climate change.