“120 million people live along the Indus,” says Immerzeel, “but the Indus plain is like a desert. It’s completely reliant on the water from the thick glaciers above.”
(Nobody mention overpopulation)
(Nobody mention overpopulation)
I expect wars starting to happen for resources in the next 10-20 years, not a popular opinion.
Im not sure why you think it is not a popular opinion, it is the status quo.
Water is actually an energy problem. Water is generally not created/destroyed and so energy is the limiting factor. With unlimited energy a city would essentially recycle the vast majority of its water.
We're actually limited not by space, water, or arable land, but by thermodynamics. At some point we'd overheat the planet directly from our own waste heat. We have to get off the planet to continue growing the population.
Once we do that the limits on human population are so high as to be mind boggling.