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Saturday, November 14, 2009
The Overpopulation Myth: Humans Will Stop Replacing Themselves By 2020
We have overshot the carrying capacity of the planet. By drawing down ecological capital, instead living off the returns of that capital, short term growth can be accomplished at the cost of reducing future carrying capacity, with generally disastrous results.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean we need population reduction. If we dramatically scale back our overconsumption, resource use, carbon emissions, and pollution, we could theoretically raise the carrying capacity. On the other hand, a reduction in population would likely make all of that a lot easier.
That is your interpretation of population. My belief is that human resilience will always overcome the pesimistic sayings of exaggerations of Malthus, Ehlrich, etc.
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We have overshot the carrying capacity of the planet. By drawing down ecological capital, instead living off the returns of that capital, short term growth can be accomplished at the cost of reducing future carrying capacity, with generally disastrous results.
http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/11/carrying-capacity.html
However, that doesn't necessarily mean we need population reduction. If we dramatically scale back our overconsumption, resource use, carbon emissions, and pollution, we could theoretically raise the carrying capacity. On the other hand, a reduction in population would likely make all of that a lot easier.
That is your interpretation of population. My belief is that human resilience will always overcome the pesimistic sayings of exaggerations of Malthus, Ehlrich, etc.
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