Soviet progressives: the earth only needs a few hundred million people, the maximum population is 1.5 billion Many Soviet progressives - great science fiction writers and scientists - asked, who said that it is normal for an infinite increase in the number of inhabitants of the earth?
Igor Bastozhev-Lada and Ivan Eframov (his teacher) in private conversations and letters considered the optimal number of the earth's inhabitants to be 200 million people. Ephramov, on the other hand, in his works gave a higher figure - 1.5 billion people. The Strugatsky brothers went in line with Afremov in this figure - 1.5 billion people.
The most philanthropic was Kir Bolichev - a maximum of 5 billion people. (And the most misanthropic is Arthur Clarke, 100 thousand people - but for that he is not a Soviet person).
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