Population and Carrying Capacity Forum

The graph above depicts the results of a climb-and-collapse population study of a reindeer herd on St. Matthew’s Island off the coast of Alaska (After Scheffer, 1951).

The graph BELOW depicts what is quite arguably the most important data set in the history of our own species. It is not just exponential, but hyperexponential (and with a striking similarity to a graph of the fission events inside the nuclear detonation that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II).

Notice that beginning with a worldwide population of two billion in 1930, our species will soon reach its seventh billion late in 2011 (five additional billions added in a single human lifetime), with two more additional billions (numbers eight and nine) on-track to join us by 2050.

This forum is dedicated to helping stimulate all of us who are alive today to work together to, if at all possible, minimize the humanitarian, biospheric, and civilizational calamities that the closing stages of a late-phase exponential progression promise to deliver.

Economic bubbles repeatedly burst when analysts, traders, and the general public become over-confident and/or underestimate risks. As a species, too many of us may well be seriously underestimating the risks of humanity’s unfolding population bubble.

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