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by PeterisP 2850 days ago
Wood is a renewable resource - if the global population was (for example) a few million people, then building everything out of wood, clearcutting forests for farming and burning all the wood they'd need wouldn't be a problem; and without technology a high population can't be sustained.

What's dangerous, however, is a mid-tech low-income high-population situation, which can only be a dystopia.

High technology is a solution, stone-age technology can be a solution, but any semi-industrialized post-apocalyptic 'steampunk' will be worse than both high and low tech.

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>stone-age technology can be a solution

What about the next big meteor strike?