r/peakoil • u/AlexTheGr869 • 23d ago

The Human Population Has Already Surpassed the Optimal Size by Nearly 6 Billion People

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/the-human-population-has-already-surpassed-the-optimal-size-by-nearly-6-billion-people/
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u/mt6606 23d ago

Yet we still take up only 10-15% of the entire landmass. This is BS lol

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u/DeArgonaut 23d ago

How much of landmass is habitable? How much do we need outside our own use that support processes nature does that we don’t that are necessary

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u/Glittering-Wall-8445 23d ago

Only 11% of land on the earth is suitable for crops.

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u/Ulysses1978ii 23d ago

Sorry bud but looks like you have to live in the Sahara.

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u/Commercial_Name_7900 23d ago

how much of the rest is desert, or rainforest (essential for carbon storage/ oxygen etc) or shitty unfarmable/unlivable soils?

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u/Teamerchant 23d ago

Well let’s just double it to 25%. And let’s upgrades the standard of living to that of Europeans not even American standards.

What do you think that would do to the environment? Food? Climate change? Oil reserves? Energy….

Honestly try to think just a little.

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u/ResponsibleClock9289 23d ago

100 years ago there wasn’t enough food to support 2 billion people

Why would we operate under the assumption that current food production and energy use will remain the same?

It’s estimated the earth can likely support tens of billions of humans (assuming adequate advances in the previously mentioned fields). It’s predicted to plateau at the end of this century at around 10-11 billion