Monthly Archives: July 2018

This article by Ted Nordhaus was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons.   In a recent Nature Sustainability paper, a team of scientists concluded that the Earth can sustain, at most, only 7 billion people at subsistence levels of consumption (and this June saw us at 7.6 billion). Achieving ‘high lifeContinue reading “The Earth’s carrying capacity for human life is not fixed”