Estimates vary, but we’re expected to reach “peak human” around 2070 or 2080, at which point there will be between 9.4 billion and 10.4 billion people on the planet. It may be a slow process – if we reach 10.4 billion, the UN expects the population to remain at this level for two decades – but eventually after this the population is projected to decline.
Oh and if that’s not enough for you, these ice sheets are experiencing ‘tipping point like behaviour’ and you know what will happen when the planet has a few more years as hot as 2023 and more of those ice sheets experience a bit more of that ‘tipping point like behaviour’? That’s called the Blue Ocean Event. Feel free to look the BOE up with as many of your own sources as you like, the blog page I linked just has a good explanation and diagrams, it’s faaaaar from the only source. It’s also called the Clathrate gun hypothesis if Wikipedia is more your jam.
Fresh water reserves will be 30% OVER capacity by 2030 and 90% of top soil is at tisk of erosion by 2050
Pick your own sources from the search results.
Oh and if that’s not enough for you, these ice sheets are experiencing ‘tipping point like behaviour’ and you know what will happen when the planet has a few more years as hot as 2023 and more of those ice sheets experience a bit more of that ‘tipping point like behaviour’? That’s called the Blue Ocean Event. Feel free to look the BOE up with as many of your own sources as you like, the blog page I linked just has a good explanation and diagrams, it’s faaaaar from the only source. It’s also called the Clathrate gun hypothesis if Wikipedia is more your jam.
And what with 2024 having been another record breakingly hot year, and no reprieve in sight due carbon emissions still increasing, causing more natural disasters due to climate collapse, and not to mention the crop failure getting worse year on year and fuck, if I didn’t have shit to do this evening I could go on all night adding to this list.
So not gonna lie but I think we’re pretty fucked for ‘how mamy people can the earth handle’. Billions of people are going to die this century.
That top link should say “40% over capacity on fresh water”, typo sorry.