“You know, I have often thought that at the end of the day, we would have saved more wildlife if we had spent all WWF's money on buying condoms.”
We'll do more for the planet and for humanity by making female access to education, contraception, and abortion universal.
Either that, or Gaia will control the population, and it won't be pleasant.
Earth can only support a certain number of human beings.
Correction. Earth can only support a certain number of human beings at a given standard of life.
I have seen HN comments where some users have said that earths capacity is closer to 100 billion than 10 billion but they always ignore that the standard of living would have to be pretty terrible.
Correction, to be pedantic. Earth can only support a certain number of human beings at a given standard of life with our current sciencific advancement. The number increases with advancements in renewable tech.
but yeah we already have massive crop failures in switzerland.