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Climate change and environmentalism are some of my favourite areas of science and from both reading around and going to lectures I've got two figures for the maximum sustainable population of the earth, those being:
1 billion - from James Lovelock (one of his Gaia books)
1-2 billion - from the head of the Geoengineering department at Bristol
and I was wondering if anyone else knew of any other estimates, just so I can get a better idea on this subject.
I know all estimates have huge uncertainties, but an "in-the-ballpark-of" sort of figure would be appreciated,
1 billion - from James Lovelock (one of his Gaia books)
1-2 billion - from the head of the Geoengineering department at Bristol
and I was wondering if anyone else knew of any other estimates, just so I can get a better idea on this subject.
I know all estimates have huge uncertainties, but an "in-the-ballpark-of" sort of figure would be appreciated,