the Earth can hold trillions of people because more people leads to greater economic growth. Economies and scale are created and labor specialization is increased, and this all leads to more human ingenuity, the greatest factor contributing to human flourishing.
Greetings impimp!
Thanks for the reply!
I do not agree with you though, because My thinking is influenced by the complex of factors that contribute to mass death.
I read the Bible this way. I believe it is true that the plagues pestilences famines and wars of history were sent by God as He says, but that does not preclude the natural factors and forces, which we can describe, that brought those calamities about. I can see them in the background details of the stories in the Old Testament.
You will understand that there is a limit on the rainfall in
habitable areas. That is the definition of desert. So, what you are suggesting is that every habitable area will work like say major cities in Japan. But the way those cities work depends on the rest of the world.
Even if you work out the waste treatment issues, you have to still work out the issues in irrigation, desalinization, and nutrition supporting your grain-based farming system. I think we could imagine how certain cities could double their populations until the next drought, but beyond that I don’t know how you do it.
Lake Mead and Lake Powell? I hope this year’s snow melt will make this situation better than it was last year, but we are talking 40 million people and several million acres of farmland. We have populated a desert area at a time when rainfall was at an unusual high. As it reverts to normal low rainfall levels, we must make arrangements for people to move! I hope I wish we will have even more rain and more rain in the southwest. Maybe?