On: Saving Scotland’s Heritage from the Rising Seas

[dan-robertson]

Why population and not wastefulness?

Note that a good way to naturally control populations seems to be to develop a western style middle class and watch as birth rates fall.

[usrusr → dan-robertson]

Because wastefulness is linear, growth is exponential. Growth will eventually stop, one way or the other.

There is only so much wastefulness to be cut down. We would still be hitting carrying capacity limits even if we all lived like eco-monks.