>>14418628Interesting but there some big holes in his ideas. One thing he is omitting is genocides.
One might almost think of as natural, as a natural population culling mechanism in humans in response to certain population densities. Often they are put into a cultural context and they are culturally motivated, but quite a few have occurred right before population explosions, most notably the Assyrian genocides, genocides during the Roman conquests and most recently Nazi Germany.
It is not unthinkable that the conditions for another genocide to occur are there and that it's also possible that this time it won't be religiously, ethnically, culturally or nationally motivated, but purely resource motivated. If that occurs, we could see a global population reduction that could significantly increase the lifespan of our current energy sources to a point where we are guaranteed to have the longevity to discover sustainable sources of energy before they run out. But, this would also count as a collapse of complexity and I doubt it wouldn't be without additional political, economic and social global fallouts.
