RE: Human Survival
July 26, 2013 at 11:19 pm
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2013 at 11:20 pm by pineapplebunnybounce.)
@popeyespappy
Calculating the capacity requires that you determine how much resources one person would use up (this is of course highly variable in reality). Theoretically speaking, there are 3 models that a population might follow: one that stays at the capacity, one that oscillates above and below the capacity periodically, one that goes way above it, and then crashes. I read somewhere that the world can carry 9 billion if we all lived like poor people in third world countries live. But since I'm quoting on memory I don't remember what sort of resources (what we already have or including potential resources) they took into account in that calculation. We're getting close to that number and not living anything like poor people (here in north america), so ... still not looking too good if we were to allocate those resources evenly now. I mean it would definitely solve a lot of problems right now, but it wouldn't sustain the population growth in the future. So I'm still pessimistic about our future.
Calculating the capacity requires that you determine how much resources one person would use up (this is of course highly variable in reality). Theoretically speaking, there are 3 models that a population might follow: one that stays at the capacity, one that oscillates above and below the capacity periodically, one that goes way above it, and then crashes. I read somewhere that the world can carry 9 billion if we all lived like poor people in third world countries live. But since I'm quoting on memory I don't remember what sort of resources (what we already have or including potential resources) they took into account in that calculation. We're getting close to that number and not living anything like poor people (here in north america), so ... still not looking too good if we were to allocate those resources evenly now. I mean it would definitely solve a lot of problems right now, but it wouldn't sustain the population growth in the future. So I'm still pessimistic about our future.
