[mpreda]

> Economic growth and population growth will likely keep that going up.

What population growth?

[rsynnott]

About 70 million per year at the moment. Current estimates have world population peaking in 2080.

[psychoslave]

Certainly not all estimates, right? We can certainly suppose different scenarios, with a large specter from humanity total disappearance to discovery of star gates technology opening plenty of inhabitable world without any actual alien threat existing in the outerspace. Also there can be wide gap in evolution from one government influence zone to an other, even at very small region scale — think Haiti and The Dominican Republic.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151971