Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by hyperdunc 3009 days ago
Less food, fewer people. More space for those who remain - until adaptation leads to another population increase.
2 comments

Sure Spock, but most of us aren't ok with mass famine and death.
And that’s totally how it works, less food is produced, so people just say, “Oh well, time to die.” They don’t become desperate, they don’t migrate en masse, and they don’t go to war, it’s just a peaceful loss of a few billion lives to make more room for you. All of that assuming we’re not swimming in technological miracles like some others here are saying. Fusion is right around the corner! We’re going to grow cows in test tubes for free!

No wonder we’re screwed.