More Words, Deeper Hole

Because, short of volume shipment of people to other habitable planets, space resource extraction at high levels, or upload, there is a carrying capacity limit on this planet. I can't find the fire-marshal's occupancy limit sign telling me what it is just at the moment, but I'm quite confident there is one.

Maybe it's 5 times the current population, or even more. But I don't believe it.

And I think far too much of the population is cheerfully charging for the edge of that cliff.

Yeah, maybe I imprinted too much on Club of Rome nonsense in my school days. What I'm really afraid of is that those confident-sounding nonsensical predictions have badly damaged the idea of there being limits. And I think the limits are still there. (I think "there are limits" is definitely, absolutely, true.) AND I think the limits are close enough to be worth thinking about some (that's certainly a claim that can be disagreed with).