I will repeat this because people want to launch off-topic attacks:
The more dense the population, the higher the per-capita GDP.
The more man-lives we have records of, the more technology we have access to. Inventions are directly correlated to man-lives (or man-years) we have records of.
Mathus' and the Club of Rome's claim that food production and wealth can not scale with the population is absurd. History shows us that that is not the case. As our population increased over thousands of years of recorded history, we did not become poorer or unable to feed ourselves. Instead, as our population went up, our per-capita GDP increased and the percentage of our income we spent to feed ourselves decreased.
Please, prove me wrong. Read the first chapter of Merchants of Despair and prove Dr. Zubrin wrong.
The more dense the population, the higher the per-capita GDP.
The more man-lives we have records of, the more technology we have access to. Inventions are directly correlated to man-lives (or man-years) we have records of.
Mathus' and the Club of Rome's claim that food production and wealth can not scale with the population is absurd. History shows us that that is not the case. As our population increased over thousands of years of recorded history, we did not become poorer or unable to feed ourselves. Instead, as our population went up, our per-capita GDP increased and the percentage of our income we spent to feed ourselves decreased.
Please, prove me wrong. Read the first chapter of Merchants of Despair and prove Dr. Zubrin wrong.