>>13104305By all indications we passed our limit centuries ago.
Climate change would indicate that the froth of humans produced by the industrial revolution and modern agriculture are based on a fundamentally unsustainable foundation. The land is becoming barren, deprived of nutrients, the air unbreathable, deserts expanding, sea levels rising. The population of Niger, for example, has grown from 3 million in 1960 to 24 million today, and is set to reach 100 million by 2100. All the while the Sahara desert is set to expand into the Sahel. 100 million cannot live in a desert.
The 21st century will be characterised by a counter industrial revolution as our neurotic push for immortality and abundance leaves us with extinction and nothing. Famines, floods, wars, droughts, pandemics/epidemics - all common place, and no amount of guilt aid from the UN or Live Aid concerts will be enough. Many of the children born today are almost on a conveyer belt to a short and miserable life. Even if you subdue malaria, something else emerges to take its place
The world population will continue to grow, spurred on by Africa while ironically the developed world implodes under the weight an inverted population pyramid. I personally reckon we’ll peak at around 8-9 billion by the middle of this century, the limits imposed on our relentless development will stop the 10th billion person ever being born.
Hosea 8:7
