Correct, it is an arbitrary number. If you’re not convinced that a world with 200 billion people and our current tech level is horrible to live in, take 2 trillion instead. The whole point is to dial the number to the extreme end of things, why bicker about this detail? The reason we can’t just scale up current food production solutions, i.e. farmland, is because half the habitable land on Earth is already used for that purpose.
Well, partly because it sounded wrong and I like to bicker, and partly because the specific numbers are important. You’re making a specific claim about 7 billion people being “too much”; I was wondering if you had any modeling behind this.
Well, partly because it sounded wrong and I like to bicker, and partly because the specific numbers are important. You’re making a specific claim about 7 billion people being “too much”; I was wondering if you had any modeling behind this.