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Posted on 04/06/2026 6:30:00 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
The human population has already grown too large and demanding for Earth to sustainably support at current consumption levels, a new study warns.
Based on more than two centuries of population data, a team led by Corey Bradshaw of Flinders University in Australia found humanity is living well beyond the bounds of what our planet can support long-term.
Ecologists describe the ability of an environment to sustain a species' population as its "carrying capacity". It's an estimate of the number of individuals from any given species that can survive long-term, based on the resources at hand and the rate at which those resources regenerate.
Around 12 billion is the absolute maximum estimated carrying capacity, but it's far from the optimum at our current levels of resource consumption, which Bradshaw and team calculate to be 2.5 billion.
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Why are they saying this now?
Is it the 100th anniversary of this story?
Not new news.
They are talking like that for last 50 years, at least.
“If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000,” Ehrlich prophesized during a speech in 1971. He also said that the U.S. would be rationing water by 1974, and food by 1980.
That smog in L.A. and New York would cause some 200,000 deaths per year. That Americans born after World War II wouldn’t live past 50.
But if you want to reduce the earth's population by one, feel free to exit the planet at any time.
And how well did those predictions turn out?! They failed miserably, big time!
My thoughts exactly.
Gates just wanted to “off” 90% of the population. Problem solved?
Not according to Elon Musk; he says we need more people -— just not clumped together in one spot.
Pure unadulterated crap.
The population of both Iran and Qatar seem too high.
“But if you want to reduce the earth’s population by one, feel free to exit the planet at any time.”
Canada will be happy to help.
One obvious way to overcome this limit is to expand into space and tap into the tremendous energy and material resources in space.
The sun alone puts out many trillions of times the energy we use on earth. There are many other resources to tap into in space.
By reducing the cost to orbit by roughly 99%, Elon Musk is showing how we can exploit space and increase the resources available to earth.
Ya notice that none of the ‘team’ have died by euthanasia ???
If they really believed there were too many people they would volunteer to decrease the number...
He was wrong.
Never understood that, It's my life to do with as I please. So I am going to force someone else to do what I am too much of a coward to do.
Do it and own it.
Then volunteer to reduce the surplus population
Chop off your foot and chow down.
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