Human Population: What Is The "Goldilocks" Level?

"Should we worry about overpopulation or, as Elon Musk has argued, should we worry more about underpopulation? How many people could live on our planet and how close are we to reaching the "Limits to Growth"? In this video, we look at how much we know and what we can conclude from this."

There has been an honest discussion regarding the best level of humanity on our finite planet since the majority of human societies have become "developed". In my opinion, the answer is still elusive but we must attempt to get to the "Goldilocks" level and maintain it as soon as possible. Click on the link below for an interesting presentation on this important matter:

Is Elon Musk right in saying that we are too few people?

Population Growth: Religion Or Poverty?

There is evidence that more religious societies reproduce more (link). However, is it religion, per se, that is CAUSING it? Click on the link below to get a more science-based opinion on the matter:

Religions and Babies

Ten Potentially Catastrophic Threats To Human Survival

"The risks emerging now are varied, global and complex. Each one poses a 'significant' risk to human civilisation, a "catastrophic risk", or could actually extinguish the human species and is therefore an 'existential risk'.The risks are interconnected. They originate from the same basic causes and must be solved in ways that make no individual threat worse.

"This means many existing systems we take for granted, including our economic, food, energy, production and waste, community life and governance systems – along with our relationship with Earth's natural systems – must undergo searching examination and reform."

Will COVID-19 be a wake-up call to abandon magical thinking and universally adopt science-based thinking? Consider that 

• "more than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species,^[1] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to have died out^[2][3][4] (link)"

Click on the link below:

10 Catastrophic Threats Are Facing Humans Right Now, And Coronavirus Is Only One of Them

"Sanctity Of Life", Abortion, And Population Control

"Our attention should be riveted to the suffering that will follow in the wake of the daily population increase. Please reread Ingram’s paragraph above about the ‘inevitable outcomes of overpopulation.’ It’s a terrifying list of consequences that should terrify those who advocate the sanctity of life. The theologically driven worry about the loss of zygotes, embryos, and early-stage fetuses is inappropriate and entirely misplaced."

Reality is hard for the deluded.

Does "Sanctity of Life" Rule Out Abortion?

The Coming Population Bust

"A new kind of research and theory is required for a world of zero population growth, albeit one that both acknowledges and avoids the often-catastrophic legacies of past demographic thinking."

The Politics and Ecology of Zero Population Growth