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by tticvs 770 days ago
However it is not possible to support the human population without industrial society and its corresponding energy use.
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"It is not possible to support the Rome city population without the empire and its corresponding technologies and institutions."

Same argument, but perhaps you now imagine a slightly different outcome.

The piece that "gives way" is (of course, as any historian or anthropologist will attest) that the population size...... fluctuates. Generally the process isn't too too fun for people who find themselves in those populations.