Most of these statistics (I haven’t read the links) don’t necessarily imply that they are unsustainable. The soil degradation sounds bad, but how much has it actually reduced yields? Yields have ~doubled in the last ~70 years despite soil degradation. I talk some about supporting 10 billion people sustainably at developed country standards of living in my second 80,000 Hours podcast.
Most of these statistics (I haven’t read the links) don’t necessarily imply that they are unsustainable. The soil degradation sounds bad, but how much has it actually reduced yields? Yields have ~doubled in the last ~70 years despite soil degradation. I talk some about supporting 10 billion people sustainably at developed country standards of living in my second 80,000 Hours podcast.