There's a metaphorical elephant in the room that people aren't talking about. Over-population.
The thing is, we can pretty much estimate what the carrying level of the Earth is, i.e how big a population can live in a sustainable fashion given current agrarian technology.
The problem is: that number is around 2 billion, plus or minus a billion or so. [although climate change is likely to degrade that.]
So far, not really seeing much to address this issue that doesn't depend upon other non-sustainable technology.
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2009-04-07 10:33 am (UTC)Over-population.
The thing is, we can pretty much estimate what the carrying level of the Earth is, i.e how big a population can live in a sustainable fashion given current agrarian technology.
The problem is: that number is around 2 billion, plus or minus a billion or so. [although climate change is likely to degrade that.]
So far, not really seeing much to address this issue that doesn't depend upon other non-sustainable technology.