It is not the number of people in the world what’s important, how these people connect, interact is!
Question from the Internet:
“Will the human population ever reach a critical mass and begin to collapse in on itself?”
We are on the threshold of “collapsing on ourselves" as an unprecedented global meltdown could wipe most of Humanity out any time.
This meltdown can start from multiple potential causes from multiple different locations ranging from climate change induced extreme weather, antibiotic resistance caused untreatable plague, all-encompassing economic crisis, unemployment, geopolitical conflicts leading to social breakdown, global wars to mention a few.
None of these problems are caused by the number of people alive in the world today.
They are all caused by our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, individualistic and exploitative nature that drives us towards excessive overconsuming, unequal distribution, ruthless competition, success at the expense of each other.
This is why the only solution is changing ourselves, the attitude, purpose with which we approach each other. We need to learn how to build unprecedented, positive, global, mutually responsible and mutually complementing interconections — above and against our differences, mutual distrust and animosity — as our problem solving ability and collective survival depends on those connections.