Comment on Plant Slurs

• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The average growth rate from 10,000 BCE to 1700 was just 0.04% per year.

  Wow that’s crazy to me. I had always envisioned humans steadily spreading and growing constantly. I had no idea that we were basically treading water for so long.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, 4 million years of various “humanoid” species cohabiting & barely making it through (one big event wiping out the whole species - that’s why are gave such a shallow gene pool & all look “identical” relative to difs in other species).

    But the rapid growth was always unsustainable, the gens lived on natural wealth that they just took out of (into?) the economy way quicker than the replenishing cycle. But the difference between a million and a billon is unimaginable, that’s why we can now witness the collapse wit within a generation.

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• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Love the malthusianism. Why function on person or life quality when you can terminate your thoughts with ‘human bad’?

  No need to ever fix or grow if just ‘human bad’.

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