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Originally Posted by roflwaffle
I doubt they will, the current western lifestyle is too destructive for even the western world to keep up for much longer. It's also nuts to correlate population numbers with environmental impact. The wealthiest nations in the world have roughly half of the total environmental impact. So about 1 billion people are causing the same impact as the other ~6 billion. Remove the national boundaries and I bet we would have something like the ~200 million wealthiest people causing the same damage as the other ~6,800 million. That's not a problem with population, that's a problem with the lifestyles of the rich and famous. |
That was part of my point, between India and China there are about 2.5 billion people who are rapidly becoming industrialized and are on the road to consuming like westerners. Even without a significant population increase, something will have to change over the next few decades. The current situation is not sustainable.