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Artanthos t1_jefezc5 wrote

Reply to comment by Moist_Chemistry1418 in The only race that matters by Sure_Cicada_4459

Where is everyone going to live when the world has a population of 20 billion? Housing prices are already rising faster than inflation.

Where are you going to get the food? We are already draining the aquifers, rivers, and lakes.

What are you going to do about population. Supporting 20 billion people is going to consume far more energy, require increased manufacturing, and necessitate more mining. The oceans are already being depleted, this would only accelerate.

More crowded living conditions presents a breeding ground for both crime and disease.

How are young people supposed to advance in careers where their seniors never move on?

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bustedbuddha t1_jeg1gnn wrote

Most of those problem are down to an inefficient system, which could easily be described itself as having alignment problems Even sensible management and governance could support 20bn people if it focused on the environment and survivability.

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Moist_Chemistry1418 t1_jeff7c0 wrote

everything get better with increased pop so far

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Artanthos t1_jefflft wrote

No, it has not.

Things have gotten better with technology, population just happened to move in the same direction.

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Moist_Chemistry1418 t1_jeffofi wrote

yeah that what your forget, technology

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Artanthos t1_jefqnvy wrote

Which is why I highlighted issues caused by population that technology is not keeping up with.

A population explosion makes all of these problems much worse, with no promise of technology solving any of them.

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