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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (60533)	10/1/2002 5:29:36 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

The predictions of Malthus and the Club of Rome were wrong in their calculations, but not in their principles. There is some limit to what the earth can sustain in human population. I don't know exactly what that limit is, but I know that it exists. For example, I know that the earth could not sustain a population which would require people to live one million people deep on every square foot of the globe, both land and water. Even standing on each others' shoulders, at five feet per person, that would require solid, wall-to-wall bodies just under one thousand miles high. No room anywhere for growing food, manufacturing goods, etc. Not going to happen. Somewhere between what we have now and that number of people is the absolute population limit of the earth. I don't know what the exact number is, but as much as I know anything, I do know that it exists.