>>13960287For most of human history, the total human population stagnated at 1 billion.
This was the equilibrium point we reach. The main forces are the ressources available and the various causes of deaths.
Normally, for a given species, there is a similar equilibrium and dynamics for its population, in relation with ressources available.
We don't really have predators that affect our demographics. Now there is only diseases among the natural forces that act against us. We're like bacteria now.
Now, the Industrial Revolution gave us new tools that in fine allows us to exploit more ressources from our environment. And this way, the same forces applies, but the equilibrium has shifted. So now we have more ressources available, better life quality and so our population grew.
But our population level is still predicated on ressources. After all we're still animals, living beings in a physical world.
Our technology and industry is so powerful that we exploit the entire planet.
And now, the plankton, the base of the food chain of the Oceans is dropping, microplastic is everywhere, there are also other sources of pollution. We cut forests, we erode the agricultural soils, which won't grow anything when it'll disappear to leave only rock floor.
Mines are getting "depleted", the mass ratio of interesting material decrease because we have depleted all the good mines. Fossil fuels reserves will come to an end at some point.
Phosphorus mines are also depleted, and plants can not grow without them. Phosphorus is an essential ingredient of fertilizers, and fetilizers are essential to intensive agriculture. Agriculture production will go down dramatically when we'll stop puting fertilizers because there is no phosphorus.
Solar panels, wind turbines requires rare earth element which become more and more rare, and take a huge lot of energy to get produce.
There is less water because of droughts. Good sand for constructing building and roads is also disappearing.
