The world’s number one problem today is that the world’s population is too large for its resource base. Some people have called this situation overshoot . The world economy is ripe for a major change, such as the current pandemic, to bring the situation into balance. The change doesn’t necessarily come from the coronavirus itself. Instead, it is likely to come from a whole chain reaction that has been started by the coronavirus and the response of governments around the world to the coronavirus. Let me explain more about what is happening. [1] The world economy is reaching Limits to Growth, as described in the book with a similar title. One way of seeing the predicament we are in is the modeling of resource consumption and population growth described in the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth , by Donella Meadows et al. Its base scenario seems to suggest […]