China's One Child Policy is a great policy.

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HappySqurriel said:

Realistically, as long as we continue seeing the kinds of technological advancements that increase our ability to produce higher density cities, we continue to see the increase in efficiency we have for the past several centuries, and we can actually take advantage of the abundant energy resources available I see little reason to believe that the earth could not support 10 times its current population with each individual having a standard of living higher than most people in the western world have today.

It may not be desireable to live in a city with 4 times the population density of New York, but that doesn't mean that the earth couldn't support us.

That's just a wet dream. The truth is that if we don't take care of the underlying problems of the world as it is today (poverty, hunger and lack of sustainable technologies/application of these), our society would collapse.

When you multiply they population by 10, you have to multiply the amount of cars in the world by 10, unless we work seriously on public transport. Multiply the amount of food produced by 10 and the water available by 10.

In the FUTURE all of this will be possible but we need SHORT TERM solutions if we want to see that future.