From the article:
“Every person on this planet has a fundamental right to have as many children as they want...”
Which is true in theory. But I wonder how good we’ll all feel about it when there are 100 billion of us crowding every available speck of hospitable land.
It’ll never happen.
You underestimate the ability of nature to cull the herd.
Right now if the total land area on the face of the earth was distributed evenly, there's about 5 acres per person. Based on estimates of arable surface, there's a little over one acre per person. It's not a matter of arable land availability or loss, or even population. It's about freeing up both populations, land and other natural resources that are now controlled by totalitarians who produce nothing with them.
I suspect that solutions are out there, include converting "non-arable" areas into farmland, and making wider spread use of the oceans. It will be a long time before we run out of land; even longer if people are free to use it.
Which is true in theory. But I wonder how good we’ll all feel about it when there are 100 billion of us crowding every available speck of hospitable land.
That's what space is for.
> “But I wonder how good we’ll all feel about it when there are 100 billion of us crowding every available speck of hospitable land.”
Realistically, we’re at 5 billion right now, and its unlikely that we’ll ever see 10 billion, but the planet can easily support 50 billion.
We occupy very little of this world.