>>7562832Current food production is enough to feed ~65 million people and food production continues to rise year on year. I am imagining the upper bound limit of population assuming linear increase in technology and efficiency of land usage.
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/ag-farm-food/foodGrowth may run into challenges, such as water shortage and rising temperatures, but the Anglo-Saxon has so doggedly overcome tribulation that I imagine our resourcefulness to be enough to carry us through. We invented steam power, split the atom, and brought Australia to its current point.
>>7562835So, you're citing the evidence presented by 'Greg Sheridan' and others? I guess one thing to keep in mind is that current demographic trends already predict we'll surpass 28 million fairly soon, so that'll be interesting. I suppose he's referring to the environment's capacity to handle mining, wood production, etc., but we already produce more than enough food for 28 million. In the article it also talks about how if all the world had our living standards pollution would be intolerable, so if that is where the 28 million number is coming from, that could be a problem.
