consensus on anthropogenic climate change, page-41

Struggler

I only asked as the idea has been tossed around ie. reduce human population by 90%, so glad to hear that you aren't a genocidal maniac lol, there's a few of them about, you see.

Anyhow, regarding your comment that there are too many organisms in a finite space. Although the Earth is a finite space, the question remains "how many is too many?".

In terms of actual numbers, humans are not that many. The entire world population could fit (at 1 meter spacings)on a parade ground the same size (or a little larger)than the greater Sydney basin. I think that termites outdo humans in terms of biomass. Their emissions (methane from memory)would have to be substantial too. So I don't know if the world is overpopulated. Sure there are crowded cities and crowded countries but that is to do with distribution rather than total numbers.

Of course given that the world is finite there will be a finite carrying capacity at some point but where we are on that continuum is a matter of opinion. Personally, I think that the world has a much larger carrying capacity(in comfort) than we realise, in much the same way that the world may have looked overcrowded for the same reasons as now, a century ago. We shall see...


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