What percentage of people are alive today?
Am I the only one absolutely terrified by that number?<p>Malthus wasn't wrong in principle, just in timescale. It's clear that technologies have improved Earth's human carrying capacity, but I don't know any method to claim that an S-shaped curve isn't inevitable.<p>It's sounds science fiction-ey, but I don't understand how you can see data like this and then defund NASA.