[dangoldin]

I understand both his and yours argument. He's just saying given the current technology/resources, it's not possible to support a world population of 70B.

Clearly they are linked since the world will not move to a 70B population given the resources in the world today - there's just not enough at the moment to support that.

I think one of the points he was trying to make was that when the politicians claim that the goal is to get every country to consume at the same level, it would be challenging, if not impossible, given our current technology.

[Xichekolas]

Yeah, and I totally agree with that point. My problem is that a lot of people seem to hear things like that and mentally translate it to: "everyone needs to consume less or we are screwed".

To me, the better thought would be: "how can we acquire more resources in an environmentally and socially beneficial way?"

[dangoldin]

Yep. I agree with you. The sun produces enough energy for the entire world if we can only figure out how to harness it.