«The demographic momentum of
the current human population certainly precludes massive [population] declines in the next few decades.»
With
the current human population growth, these plants can not sustain such high levels of collection and habitat loss.»
Please note that
the current human population of any given jurisdiction may vary considerably from what it was when it was first included in my tables.
The «Humans» column is
the current human population of the jurisdiction, stated in thousands.
There's a valuable string of posts at New Security Beat, one of my favorite blogs, on the forces that produced
the current human population and will shape paths forward.
But we're in danger of forgetting that it concerns a deadly serious matter: a change in the climatic conditions which have made human civilisation and
the current human population possible, and, specifically, the degradation of the most wonderful and beautiful of the world's ecosystems into desert and scrubby grassland.