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RE: Panarchist Experiments: Can Propertarians & Non-Propertarians Co-Exist?
It's not about placing blame on the size of the population it is about understanding that the population only achieved that size through the use of fossil fuel derived fertilizers and that it is impossible to sustain the current number of humans without fossil fuel derived fertilizers. Even if everyone swore off meat and you eliminated all so called food waste you could not feed 7 billion people without using fossil fuel derived fertilizers.
We have food waste on a scale that could feed millions, if not billions of people.
There is a substantial percentage of the world population that eats out of a garbage can.
Fossil fuels are not going to run out anytime soon either, according to most of these "peak oil" theories, we should have all been dead by now.
What will happen, is that oil will be more energy intensive to extract in the future.
We can't continue to waste resources like we do now, that is unsustainable.
all I really wanted to know was whether you define "sustainability" as using fossil fuels or not. All I was trying to explain is that the carrying capacity of the earth for humans without using fossil fuel fertilizers is only 2-3 billion.
Its a pointless discussion topic. I'll keep that in mind next time it comes up.