/sci/ - Science & Math

What is the optimum human population for the world? Have we already exceeded such a point?

How do we stop Overpopulation? Ideas for both increasing carrying capacity and lowering the irth rate are welcome.

How could we realistically deal with the coming overpopulation crisis? What could we do today?

Why should 1st world white middle classes be targeted for this scheme specifically?

Could the rise of narcissism, hedonism, and promiscuity in our culture currently be correlated to the enormous population growth we've had in the past half century or so?

Think of families with a huge amount of kids...less attention is given to each child.

More people = more people to compete with socially

social science fags....get in here.

resource depletion will automatically counter it, who cares

incidentally if there is anything worth getting hysterical about it's the inevitable malthusian catastrophe

>>2860675

It will solve itself, people get desperate during a famine, this causes political instability which leads to war which reduces the population.

Of course this could all be avoided if we stopped breeding like rabbits but we all know that's not going to happen.

How many people does /sci/ think we can support on earth? Obviously the population can't keep increasing indefinitely, even if we became some sort of von Neumann machines we'd eventually run out of matter. What will put a cap on the population and where will it stop?

Current world population: 6,697,254,041
Current world population growth: 1.2%
Doubling time: ln(2) / 1.2% = 57.7623 years

2068 population: 13394508082
2126 population: 26789016164
2184 population: 53578032328
2242 population: 107156064656
2300 population: 214312129312
2358 population: 428624258624
2416 population: 857248517248
2880 population: 2.1945562 × 10^14
3112 population: 3.51128992 × 10^15
4040 population: 2.30115896 × 10^20
5084 population: 6.03235014 × 10^25
6128 population: 1.5813444 × 10^31

Just for comparison 1.992 x 10^30 population means we've converted every kilogram in the solar system into a human.

>>1515245

Ummm