How many is too many, and when did we pass that number? How many is just peachy?
I am not so sure we are too many, as I am sure we make a mess of things. We always have been. Now that production and consumption is on a massive scale the mess we make corresponds to that and balances in nature are shifted. Now, as time pass and society develops we will change the patter of production and consumption. What we need is not population control, but to cleaning up and organize ourselves to meet the problems. We would still have a problem if we decreased our population.
It would be worrying if we would increase in numbers as we have been so far. In the first part of the 1800’s we were 1 Billion people, and now we are 6.7. I read that 20 % of all people who has ever lived, is alive today.
That’s massive.
But, I’ve also read that the population increase is slowing down and that we probably won’t go passed 10 billion. That’s an assumption obviously, but in any case it seems as if it’s slowing down.
We are not going to reduce the numbers of people on the planet, and we will always need more energy.
I think that what we have to focus on is clean energy production, renewing and preserving our natural resources and the balances in nature.
Individiuums?