re: #61 LudwigVanQuixote

Well typo aside, I really did mean 46 years, I suppose that is a matter of perspective.

46 years was about the time it took to go from rudimentary atomic theory to relativity, quantum theory, nuclear physics and an atomic bomb.

It is about the time it took to go from discovering DNA to a human genome.

It is about the time it took to go from the first clumsy chemical rockets launched by Goddard to a moonshot.

It is about the time it took for human activity to threaten the entire global ecology.

In that time we went from 6 billion to 7 billion people roughly. Has anyone ever run the numbers to see what size population the ecosphere could deal with? Just for perspective as in “we are 14 times beyond the ecological population limit with these emission levels” or whatever the number would be.