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During the Paleolithic (hunter-gather) and Mesolithic (proto agricultural) ages, till about 10,000 BC, the early effects of mankind's unfolding intelligence raised the physical platform to the point at which the earth could suddenly support 4 million people. And 'soon' thereafter, during the Neolithic age, until app. 3,000 BC, the early agricultural revolution raised the physical platform once again. At this time advanced mental processes generated certain technologies by which food could be produced that simply did not exist naturally. On the strength of this achievement a whopping 10 million people could support themselves on the earth, and this with a much greater life-expectancy that averaged around 25 years.
Throughout the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, and including the Mediterranean Classical Period to app. 500 AD, including the time of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty in China, food production became evermore organized and technologically intensive (except for the area of the Roman Empire), so that the physical platform of the earth could sustain app. 200 million people at the end of this period.
Over the next 1,300 years, covering the Medieval Period and beyond to the 18th century, a proliferating industrialization raised the physical platform up to the point that 720 million people could now support themselves on the planet with an average life-expectancy of app. 38 years.
In the next two centuries, up to the mid 1970s, high energy intensive industrialization and farming had raised to physical platform to such high levels of civilization that it had become possible for 3.9 billion people to support themselves on the earth most comfortably, and with a life-expectancy of over 70 years.*(EIR Jan. 1 1996 page.A3)
In very real terms, mankind has moved forward profoundly towards expanded freedoms on the whole front of human living. Mankind's own history stands as a demonstration case for the effect of advancing discoveries on man's freedom on the earth.
This dramatically progressive development indicates that the effective, so-called carrying capacity of the earth was constantly raised to higher and and higher levels in line with the enriched physical platform that was being progressively raised by means of intelligent processes. In real terms, the earth has not changed throughout this entire development. It is still the same earth that was once too small for a population of 1-2 million people. But mankind has changed. Mankind's mental capacities had been discovered, which developed processes that raised the physical platform of the world out on an environment of primitive limitations, into an environment of created resources. We live on a platform, today, that does not exist naturally, nor ever has existed naturally.
By this dynamic unfolding of intelligently created resources, mankind has been able to sustain itself in ever greater numbers on the same planet that once supported but a few. In this dynamic increase in sustainable population levels, can be found the strongest evidence of the metaphysical processes that have become fundamental to human existence. In them the existence of certain underlying truths comes to light.
These increases, therefore, even though they have a purely metaphysical base, testify to undeniable truths. The impact of thought upon human living, that is, the metaphysically created new resources for living, have enabled a 5,000 fold population increase with an increased longevity and quality of life. It is a fundamental error, therefore, to speak of the earth in terms of "carrying capacity." The truth is, that this planet has a theoretically infinite carrying capacity, as it acts merely as a platform for staging the infinite riches of created resources and creative processes. The time is also close at hand when the earth acts merely as a nominal base for an interplanetary society as mankind becomes the vehicle for spreading life throughout the universe. From the breakout point of its developing intelligence, to the present, mankind has raised its numbers 5,000 fold, and enjoys greater and richer resources than it had at the beginning. With technologies presently at had and demonstrably possible, one can see no logical end in sight that would be forced upon man by a foreseeable fundamental lack of resources. To the contrary, the historically achieved resources have become greater with each succeeding step, nor is there an end in sight.
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