We already did. Those numbers represent the area under an exponential growth curve with respect to time as the curve approaches a global energy maximum carrying capacity.
In other words, it shows the globe filling up just before catastrophic collapse or a mass die off. It is unclear what the post collapse stability level will be (before the Industrial Revolution the stable population level was less than a billion). We don’t know if the new level will be the same as pre-IR or if automation related efficiencies will increase it above the pre-IR level. We don’t know how many post collapse people could survive with horse and oxen to generate food vs biodiesel farm equipment for example.
We already did. Those numbers represent the area under an exponential growth curve with respect to time as the curve approaches a global energy maximum carrying capacity.
In other words, it shows the globe filling up just before catastrophic collapse or a mass die off. It is unclear what the post collapse stability level will be (before the Industrial Revolution the stable population level was less than a billion). We don’t know if the new level will be the same as pre-IR or if automation related efficiencies will increase it above the pre-IR level. We don’t know how many post collapse people could survive with horse and oxen to generate food vs biodiesel farm equipment for example.
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