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Originally Posted by sounding
Earth can easily handle double or triple that. Who knows, maybe even more. There is safety in numbers, especially if you have another extinction asteroid event -- and even another black plague or something. As soon as the Greenland ice melts, that's lots more land for people -- and the Vikings might even return then to the "Green" lands. Survival is dependent on numbers -- the more better. The more CO2 the better -- and the more warmer the better. However more taxes is not better.
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Not true. I wrote in another post that there was a behavioral science experiment about putting more AND MORE rats in an enclosure. It went fine (for the rats) with just a few rats. But, with crowding they eventually KILLED each other. More of something is not always good. Having sufficient of something is preferable. Think about adding more and more SALT to each subsequent bite of steak - starts out good and then gets terrible.
I think that the US COULD (?) have more people, but that depends on the proper food, housing, infrastructure and etc for them. Today the US even has water problems for some people in some areas. And there are few people talking about what IS the IDEAL US population? I guess about 250 million. I don't comprehend the idea that more people are necessarily better. Animals like deer and bear regulate their population depending on the CHANGING environment. No one can tell me that humans are some intelligent SPIRITS that do NOT need space, food, and water. When some human goes without water for 3 years, then I will listen to someone that says the human population SHOULD be INFINITE. That just defies logic and COMMON SENSE !!!!!!