> If we had significantly less people, things like limited resources and pollution wouldn't be that big of a deal.
The people the world does have vary in resource consumption and pollution by like 50x (Bahrain vs developing African nations).
How we develop, and the technologies we invent to live sustainably, makes a dramatically bigger difference than how many people we have.
And likely, an inverted age pyramid makes it far, far harder to invent these technologies, as our political systems become gerontocracies, science ossifies, and all our resources are pumped into taking care of the ever-growing elderly.
The people the world does have vary in resource consumption and pollution by like 50x (Bahrain vs developing African nations).
How we develop, and the technologies we invent to live sustainably, makes a dramatically bigger difference than how many people we have.
And likely, an inverted age pyramid makes it far, far harder to invent these technologies, as our political systems become gerontocracies, science ossifies, and all our resources are pumped into taking care of the ever-growing elderly.
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