Re:If the number of children is not growing, why is the popu...
by avar on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:11AM
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> I don't think there is a hard limit on number of people.
We have around 7 billion people now. At the current growth rate of about 1%/yr the biomass of human beings will exceed the current weight of the planet Earth around the year 7200.
Not long after that this hypothetical growing humanity would collapse into a black hole under its own weight.
It'll already be quite cramped in the year 5400 with 1% growth. We'll have 5 people for every square meter of the surface of Earth (we have 510.1 trillion m^2). That's about the density near the front-row of a standing concert.
We have around 7 billion people now. At the current growth rate of about 1%/yr the biomass of human beings will exceed the current weight of the planet Earth around the year 7200.
Not long after that this hypothetical growing humanity would collapse into a black hole under its own weight.
It'll already be quite cramped in the year 5400 with 1% growth. We'll have 5 people for every square meter of the surface of Earth (we have 510.1 trillion m^2). That's about the density near the front-row of a standing concert.