By brennanhm on Skatehive
Back around the year 1800, there were only 1 billion people on the planet. Now, just two hundreds years later, we are close to 8 billion and (supposedly) climbing. Is this "hockey stick" trajectory of human population growth sustainable? If not, what might the powers that be do to reverse it? Agent Smith The topic of exponential human population growth always reminds me of a famous scene from The Matrix, in which Agent Smith expresses a revelation he had: I'd like to share a revelation I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to another area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know wh