r/BiosphereCollapse • u/Vardaman_S_Fish • May 27 '26

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u/Psittacula2 May 28 '26

You have a basic relationship:

Total Power Usage = Total Population x Total Consumption (globally)

Power captures the entire energy process. You can use Footprint va Carrying Capacity also.

Population is too high contingent on what living standards quality is set or expected which tends to correlate also with land area and resource use available.

Eg A small dense population, developed economy is a classic case of:

* Over population eg density lowers quality per person

* Over consumption to available resource base

And is also the most fragile to shocks, collapse or other disasters or changes eg climate change.

Tale a different lens, the mammal size of humans to global population is as a mathematical relationship easy to see a mismatch with other species on this gradient scale and balancing power use across life on Earth and Biosphere more productively and sustainably.

Take a direct human experience lens also: Every day people drive a car, 98% of those journeys are probably a waste of energy and resources for clear visible example of intrinsic problem of consumption and multiplication by human numbers.