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by cryingpotato 914 days ago
A perspective on population growth that I haven’t seen before. It’s very long, so the tl;dr as I understand it is:

- Humanity has always survived through technological progress to support an increased number of people. Technology changes the carrying capacity of an environment.

- Whether or not we’ll be able to do this forever is unknown.

The underlying article itself has a lot more history and nuggets of information beyond this summary!