RE: Will there be more wars in future to win more and more land?
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Well, I hate to be that guy ;) but that "situation" assumes some things that may not be so:
1 - That the number of people on Earth right now is actually accurate. There are very good cases against that assumption. The official number of people on Earth may not be anywhere near the official 8 billion or whatever it allegedly is right now.
2 - That there are neither enough resources nor space for everyone. Resource availability depends entirely on our techniques and methods to manage those resources. I.e. you can pour a gallon of drinking water into cups and serve many people. Or you can tip the gallon over and have the same amount of people trying to drink of a flat table or the dirty road.
Similarly, we can create a superabundance by mimicking ecosystems to enormous degree, like the folks in permaculture or syntropic agroforestry are doing, as compared to using monocultures which deplete natural resources at an alarming rate. But everything can be healed, and if properly managed with care even "depleted" fields and meadows can become rich and abundant again.
It's just that the same forces that tell us we are too many are the same forces that prevent these abundance approaches from going mainstream.
As for the "space" - I remember it has been calculated a few years ago that if all Earthlings stood shoulder to shoulder they would fit inside the city area of New York city or something like that. There was another calculation about each family having an acre of land and everyone would fit inside of texas. Or something like that. I could give you further resources if you want to dig deeper.
that's my take anyway ;)
blessings!