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Assuming that life expectancy will remain the same and that the number of children will also not change Hans Rosling predicted our world population never will exceed 11 billion people.

He was a very passionate and entertaining public speaker.

https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_...

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation

Carrying capacity is estimated at 7.7 billion. And I have seen that Hans Roslings predictions have been revised upwards. Doesn't look good either way.

carrying capacity keeps getting revised upward also.

Sure, but what's the end goal? That we all end up like caged chickens? We could probably cram in lots of people that way.

IMHO the idea of a goal is an attractive illusion.

Does anything in his talk refute the UN projection of over 11 billion people by 2100? https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/world...

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