Fact Checking
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OT,
Current cultural trends are projecting a world population maximum of 10 billion people and a slow reduction back to 8 billion people after that:
That's under the "medium" projection of current fertility trends.
Here's the regional trends:
So I agree with @Krugerrand partially, we probably don't have to be ready for 70 billion people. Not even close - and we'll achieve that via the most peaceful way: by slowly advancing societies.
An interesting fact is that as societies modernize and get more prosperous, population growth slows down and even stops.
So just making the planet enjoyable and sustainable for all of us is inherently self-stabilizing. EVs and Tesla are a big factor in that process.
Humanity can also expand in the solar system, which has even more resources than Earth.
I bring it up in conversation from time to time that we should be aiming for 70 billion.
Current cultural trends are projecting a world population maximum of 10 billion people and a slow reduction back to 8 billion people after that:
That's under the "medium" projection of current fertility trends.
Here's the regional trends:
So I agree with @Krugerrand partially, we probably don't have to be ready for 70 billion people. Not even close - and we'll achieve that via the most peaceful way: by slowly advancing societies.
An interesting fact is that as societies modernize and get more prosperous, population growth slows down and even stops.
So just making the planet enjoyable and sustainable for all of us is inherently self-stabilizing. EVs and Tesla are a big factor in that process.
Humanity can also expand in the solar system, which has even more resources than Earth.
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