Ideal Earth Population

[Xen]

Less than 10 million, specifically me and a select few females.

if that were the case, or rather similer, I would be me, and a select many females

 

[Narz]

Maybe 50 million, that will let people live in cities and leave much of the environment untouched for the most part.

Yeah, if by 'cities' you mean remote feudal villages with four-figure populations...

Why not 500 cities of about 100thou each connected by a magnetic supersonic train system. People could live out in the country too (or visit for research purposes) but they'd have to grow their own food and live in a sustainable way.

 

[WillJ]

if that were the case, or rather similer, I would be me, and a select many females

Well, when I said "few," I meant relative to the 3 billion or so we have today.

 

[Xen]

Why not 500 cities of about 100thou each connected by a magnetic supersonic train system. People could live out in the country too (or visit for research purposes) but they'd have to grow their own food and live in a sustainable way.

in that sort of idea, thie rinst a real argument against s similer system, but with larger cities, and condensed populations; a archology coudl offer a suitable structure for such an iodea, and multiple archologies coudl hold a million, o rmore, depending on the details

 

[Dell19]

So one large city and then masses and masses of dragons?

 

[Mathilda]

Well, when I said "few," I meant relative to the 3 billion or so we have today.

So WillJ and 3 billion women.
That could turn into a lesbian paradise

 

[Marla_Singer]

I'm amazed so many people would dream of a world less peopled than our current one. I would like to know why actually.

 

[WillJ]

So WillJ and 3 billion women.
That could turn into a lesbian paradise

Hey!

Even so, a lesbian paradise actually wouldn't be a terrible thing for me either....

 

[Marla_Singer]

I'm not sure I would like to be the only man of a world peopled by 3 million women.

Knowing that the survival of the specie is a natural thrive for any being (including humans), I guess that only man would fastly become a breeder. It may be fun for holidays, but 24/24 and 7/7, such a life is certainly hell.

 

[WillJ]

Knowing that the survival of the specie is a natural thrive for any being (including humans), I guess that only man would fastly become a breeder.

Oh, the humanity!

Edit: I just saw your edit, and I suppose I agree with you. I'm not actually serious with this, of course.

Edit2: As for my serious answer, probably somewhere around a billion.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Oh, the humanity!

Edit: I just saw your edit, and I suppose I agree with you. I'm not actually serious with this, of course.

Sorry about my multiple editings. Actually, I wasn't sure about breeder being the good word. So I've checked on several dictionary to find out it was actually the good one.

I shouldn't under-estimate that much my knowledge in english.

 

[Mathilda]

I feel a need to spell out the scenario a bit closer. You'd be like a prize bull, not allowed to actually have sex with anyone, so as not waste the seed. Just have it "harvested" a few times a day and proceeds devided among recipients.

 

[Marla_Singer]

I feel a need to spell out the scenario a bit closer. You'd be like a prize bull, not allowed to actually have sex with anyone, so as not waste the seed. Just have it "harvested" a few times a day and proceeds devided among recipients.

Actually that's right.

Knowing there would be 3 billion women and only one man. The most efficient way to generate a 2nd generation would be artificial procreation. Not natural procreation. We need sperm in mass, wasting it would mean less babies.

You would be some kind of ant queen, but in reverse.
That would be real hell.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

60-100 billion (ie atleast 10 times more then now)

because we can easily fit that many if we use the space we have well, and i see no reason to stop multiplying.

Roddy, we definitely have the SPACE, but I don't thinkwe could possibly have the RESOURCES for that amount...

I voted for "3-5 billion". That's about a sustainable level (or so my teachers agree on) that doesn't require purges or extreme reductions in birth rates...


Does anyone have any idea why Xen is talking about archaeology, as a noun???

 

[North King]

I'm amazed so many people would dream of a world less peopled than our current one. I would like to know why actually.

Because I--regardless of how silly it sounds to say it--believe that it would be awesome to have a world given almost entirely up to wildlife, a free and natural world, and even better, a world where humans can easily coexist with the environs and have plenty of space.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Because I--regardless of how silly it sounds to say it--believe that it would be awesome to have a world given almost entirely up to wildlife, a free and natural world, and even better, a world where humans can easily coexist with the environs and have plenty of space.

Well humans have plenty of space already. If you kill the 6 billion people living in the word today and that you send all the corpses in the lake of Geneva, the level of the water will only increase of 10 centimeters.

6 billion people is not massive. Of course as most of them live in cities, we see each other all day. But that's not true everywhere in the world. Actually, if you'd like to coexist with mother nature, you can do it now. There's no need to be less.

 

[WillJ]

Does anyone have any idea why Xen is talking about archaeology, as a noun???

He wasn't mispelling archaeology, he was mispelling arcology.

 

[WillJ]

If you kill the 6 billion people living in the word today and that you send all the corpses in the lake of Geneva, the level of the water will only increase of 10 centimeters.

Whoever figured that out must have been a REALLY sadistic statistician.

 

[HamaticBabylon]

Women already out number men, and in a few more decades the gap will get bigger.....bring on the multiple wives.

 

[Mathilda]

Women already out number men, and in a few more decades the gap will get bigger.....bring on the multiple wives.

I thought that was mainly because women live longer than men and the population is ageing. So yes, we'll have more old women, but whatever turns you on mate