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How do you think the earth could support 15 billion hunter gatherer humans? Would that not require an enormous amount of arable space?


I should have rephrased it. I didn't quite mean hunter gatherers literally.

Rather I meant a (energy) consumption per capita that was similar to hunter gatherers. ie. people only lived to eat, have shelter and survive.

That we can support.

Everyone having cars, eating beef 7 days a week, massive amounts of waste and all the amenities that a median person in a developed country enjoys.....those things are out of reach.




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