In this context, I mean it as a general description of the world population over the course of the last several centuries (and last century), which exhibits a classic exponential growth curve. In the longer interview, I actually mentioned the UN population report and its current predictions of the population plateauing in the next few de…
In this context, I mean it as a general description of the world population over the course of the last several centuries (and last century), which exhibits a classic exponential growth curve. In the longer interview, I actually mentioned the UN population report and its current predictions of the population plateauing in the next few decades, but I cut it for space. The tricky thing about the plateau is that it still is a pretty high resource "requirement” — 10 billion people is a pretty high “carrying capacity.” Neither I nor Nasser are population alarmists, and both of us are pretty skeptical of the “solutions” that population alarmists tend to propose. But I also think that our current approach to growth doesn’t seem like it is all that sustainable.
In this context, I mean it as a general description of the world population over the course of the last several centuries (and last century), which exhibits a classic exponential growth curve. In the longer interview, I actually mentioned the UN population report and its current predictions of the population plateauing in the next few decades, but I cut it for space. The tricky thing about the plateau is that it still is a pretty high resource "requirement” — 10 billion people is a pretty high “carrying capacity.” Neither I nor Nasser are population alarmists, and both of us are pretty skeptical of the “solutions” that population alarmists tend to propose. But I also think that our current approach to growth doesn’t seem like it is all that sustainable.