On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 1:22:46 PM UTC-8, JF Mezei wrote:
On 2020-02-09 10:31, Alain Fournier wrote:

Adding one, or more, habitable planets just delays the problem.

Similar to climate change where the Paris accord set what are
essentially per capita CO2 emissions targets, there needs to be a
standard, sustainable number of people per habitable land.

In a world where the economy is structured to rely on growth, this is
currently impossible because imposing limit on emissions or population
will stop growth. So the "capitalist" world needs to re-invent itself
to have ecnomic success without growth. Same with financing of debt
which often runs on the hope a company will grow and this make its debt
smaller relative to its size.


Current democracy is flawed because it lacks "big picture" abilities to
take strong action that saves the planet but hurts voters.




We just need more population decline:

"The conventional projection by the UN is that world population, currently 7.7
billion, will increase to 11.2 billion in 2100, then stabilise before slowly
declining. However, current trends cast much doubt on this picture. Fertility
rates are in dramatic decline worldwide and world population may peak below nine
billion by 2050 and then decline."

See:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/scie...tter-1.3808527