[ExI] Top Soil Depletion

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] Top Soil Depletion

On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 8:54 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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>>... I have a vision of a sustainable world, with fewer but 
> better-cared-for and wealthier proles, perhaps a couple billion in 
> sustainable equilibrium, well-educated proles living comfortable, healthy, well-fed lives.

>...For someone on this list, that's remarkably backward.  Space colonies would allow a thousand times the current population, It's hard to say how many uploading would accommodate, but it is certainly in the trillions.

Keith


Clarification Keith: I meant a coupla billion meat-world humans living 8 to 10 decade lives on this rock.  I don't count space colonies in that 2E9 number, each of which must be self-sustaining, nor did I count uploads, for it is not clear how one counts those.

spike