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Old 04-05-2018, 06:12 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
Not to me. I don't see the sense in further encouraging overpopulation. Better to work on getting the Earth's population down to a sustainable level - say around 500 million - then we could all live as we choose.
Nothing is sustainable, and everything comes at a trade-off. If the human population had never exceeded 500 million, we wouldn't have achieved the levels of technology and scientific understanding we now enjoy, not that that's necessarily a bad thing.

Why 500 million, rather than more or less?
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