{"id":257536,"date":"2023-05-15T15:25:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=257536"},"modified":"2023-05-15T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:25:08","slug":"lomborg-organic-agriculture-could-optimistically-support-4-7-billion-people-industrial-agriculture-could-optimistically-support-12-billion-curr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=257536","title":{"rendered":"Lomborg: \u2018Organic agriculture\u2019 could optimistically support 4.7 billion people \u2013 \u2018Industrial agriculture\u2019 could optimistically support 12 billion \u2013 Current global population is 8 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"486\" data-attachment-id=\"257540\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=257540\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?fit=2806%2C1886&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2806,1886\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?fit=723%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?resize=723%2C486&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?resize=1024%2C688&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?resize=768%2C516&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1032&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?resize=2048%2C1377&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?resize=1200%2C807&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2023\/05\/13\/lomborg-organic-agriculture-could-optimistically-support-4-7-billion-people-industrial-agriculture-could-optimistically-support-12-billion-current-global-population-is-8-billion\/\">Climate Depot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/author\/rbushway\/\">Admin<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/\">Climate Depot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Organic agriculture everywhere can today, optimistically, support 4.7 billion people<br><br>Industrial agriculture everywhere can today, optimistically, support 12 billion<br><br>The global population is 8 billion<br><br>you do the math <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qGxjs2k9jZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/qGxjs2k9jZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BjornLomborg\/status\/1648665985287692291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The alarmist forecast of 12 billion is only a projection of current trends, ignoring factors that make it unlikely or impossible. Fertility is crashing almost everywhere, even societies where experts confidently predicted it wouldn\u2019t (eg, Iran).<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hNsxup80V1\">https:\/\/t.co\/hNsxup80V1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fabius Maximus (Ed.) (@FabiusMaximus01) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabiusMaximus01\/status\/1648726491155378185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrial agriculture everywhere can today, optimistically, support 12 billion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":257540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818444,691819573],"class_list":{"0":"post-257536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-overpopulation","11":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00FtgJ0mpWAAItJwJ.jpeg?fit=2806%2C1886&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14ZO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":258459,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258459","url_meta":{"origin":257536,"position":0},"title":"John Kerry targets farmers: \u2018We can\u2019t get to Net-Zero\u2026unless agriculture is front &amp; center as part of the solution\u2019 \u2013 \u2018I refuse to call it climate change anymore. 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