LogFAQs > #900673438

For earth specifically, it's not enough, but it would prolong things and perhaps give us time and incentives to find alternative solutions.

If for instance the total population halves any time it exceeds 6 billion in the future people would learn population control. Thanos (or god whatever) could basically set it up as a hard cap on humanity, if too many humans exist humans = humans/2 *hehe*.

Still I think that would be a case of not doing enough. This planet can not support 4 billion humans long term, without more advanced technology and alternative energy sources. It is more important to focus on advancing technology and eventually colonizing space, then just destroying enough humans that the resources will last.

Sadly we are not progressing towards colonizing space at all really, and while technology has certainly advanced, it has not done so in a way that is drastically reducing the resources we use, waste we create etc.

Won't mean the end of humanity, but it may mean that eventually only the very rich will survive while most of the rest die in horror and misery.

Probably not in our life times at least.
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