thedarkfly

Population growth is slowing, but is still going up

Look at the population pyramids of the US, Europe, China, India. Population's reaching the peak. Only Africa is not yet at its peak, probably for economic reasons.

There is not enough resources to support 9 billion people unless most of them live at a low level.

My turn to play the [citation needed] card :^)

There is more then just energy included in ‘resources’ so no amount of solar power fixes the issue long term currently.

Sustainability and renewables also mean resources being dug up stay in the loop and can be recycled. There's no physical reason not to be able to reuse a lot of the resources we need.

Europeans are just as bad as Americans for the planet

https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/content/uploads/2022/03/How_many_Earths_2022_EN_sm.jpg

Feel free to look at the sources and data.

[citation needed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_overpopulation#Criticism

Basically, the population is predicted to naturally decrease, any active efforts to reduce the population is not only unnecessary but will be plagued by questions about racism, eugenics, and social justice.

Then, the belief that there are too many people shifts the blame from the ones responsible of our unsustainability to the common folk. It will redirect efforts to build a sustainable society to reducing population. But we were unsustainable even with a tiny fraction of our population. It's now how many we are, but how sustainably we behave.

far too many people

On what base? If it's about resources, there are plenty renewable resources for even more people than now. It's more about how we use them. If people live like americans then I agree.

the planet is at a breaking point

That's more to do with the unsustainable way we treat the planet. So, more to do with the systems in place than the amount of people.

Has anyone found which eight satellites?

And as a result, the Ecologist party at the initiative of the project got obliterated during the last election 🙃

Yeah, I hope that the renewables will continue exponentially... I agree that the growing share of renewables in the mix is awesome, but in the end what matters is each ton of CO2 emitted. And we're not going in the right direction :(

What frustrates me is that China is indeed leading so much technological development on energy, but the amount of coal being burnt is just not budging... Please, China. Make the transition already.

Ah yeah, I thought he was drafted. Thanks!

Thanks for reading more carefully than me!

I can't find anything on Walter Hallstein and Adolf Heusinger being nazis or committing war crimes. Looks like the former was an academic drafted in the army and the latter a high-ranking officer who began his career before the nazis.

I get that Heusinger can be seen as complicit (he must have known for whom he worked and didn't quit), but what about Hallstein?

The population won't grow infinitely. People have in average two surviving children when mortality rate is high. If mortality decreases thanks to higher living standards, there is a population boom because more than two children survive. Birth rate then decrease to about two children per woman and population stabilizes. You can argue on why this happens, but this is just observation from Europe to Africa, from the Americas to Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition?wprov=sfla1

"But you're making the world uninhabitable by doing so? And you're still doing it?"