A path to long-term sustainability exists if humanity voluntarily reduces population to ~2 billion (from current 8 billion) while simultaneously developing synthetic food production, synthetic materials, and renewable energy—allowing rewilding of half the farmland and providing 175 years to remediate environmental toxicity before catastrophic overshoot occurs.
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Jeremy GranthamEvidence Quote
“so come back in 170 years we may very well be down to a couple of billion people without a crisis where you overshoot and then everything blows up... we have 175 years to fix it”
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:03:18 AM
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