Posted on 04/06/2026 6:30:00 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
The human population has already grown too large and demanding for Earth to sustainably support at current consumption levels, a new study warns.
Based on more than two centuries of population data, a team led by Corey Bradshaw of Flinders University in Australia found humanity is living well beyond the bounds of what our planet can support long-term.
Ecologists describe the ability of an environment to sustain a species' population as its "carrying capacity". It's an estimate of the number of individuals from any given species that can survive long-term, based on the resources at hand and the rate at which those resources regenerate.
Around 12 billion is the absolute maximum estimated carrying capacity, but it's far from the optimum at our current levels of resource consumption, which Bradshaw and team calculate to be 2.5 billion.
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Once I ran the numbers: each person’s equal share of Earth is eight acres.
that is meaningless. The vast majority live in cities, and the vast majority of the earth is uninhabited
Is that Larry Birds great, great, great grandfather?
Longer than that.
If 8 billion people were given 3,000 sq feet of living space EACH(includes houses, apartments, shared streets, road, businesses, schools,)...that would be about 850,000 square miles. By contrast, the USA is about 3.5 MILLION square miles of LAND.
If you give each human 12,000 sq. Ft of space that would about cover the USA.
The rest of the world would be animals, geology, geography, and plants. The earth has about 58 million sq. Miles of land.
We ain’t nowhere near full occupancy. Yet.
Yet the whole world “could fit” into the stste of texas with room to spare (it would be k8nds cramped, but just showing how few people there really are land-wise. Noone would want to do this of course, but here’s the breakdown:
Current World Average: Approximately 142 people per square mile.
Theoretical Texas Density (8 billion people): Approximately 29,784 people per square mile.
Manhattan, NY (One of the Densest Areas): Approximately 73,000 people per square mile.
https://www.mikegravel.org/could-the-world-fit-in-texas/
Much of the world is shut off to development. Much of it is wilderness, parks, forever wild areas, and government property, with vasr tracts of land unused excspt as attractions such as parks. We havent even begun to “fill the earth with people yet.
Much of the aorld is the szme way. I live in a pzrk area, znd you could litdrally walk for days in tne park and never see another person
Oh My!
Lions and tigers and Bears!
🦁🐯🐻
There to many people in the world....
It must be grant time again, dredging that old and discredited population bomb BS myth....
The state of Texas has about 171,000,000 acres. The population of the Earth is about 8 billion. The entire population of the world could fit into the state of Texas with about 47 people per acre.
Just in time to launch CCP-Coronavirus II, and its already created ‘vaccination’. This time, it won’t be a ‘clot shot’, it’ll be the opposite, a ‘hemorrhagic shot’. Thanks, Bill-zebub Gates and WEFer/ChiComs like Mark (of the Beast) Carney and Two-tier Keir Starmer!
Who in their right mind would want to live in space?
Of course it’s meaningless. What is not meaningless is the same calculation for the residents of the New Jerusalem. Hugh Ross estimates each believer will have enough room for not one but two eighteen-hole championship golf courses.
But where would everyone fit? As the population grows, the available labor pool needed to terraform the planet would also grow. Ultimately you could have something like a planet-sized space station with a thousand levels on it. Again, this assumes 0 technological progress. We could start doing this today if we wanted.
If there are too many people, we could always depopulate (exterminate) China, India, Indonesia and most of the middle East. Problems solved.
Anyone know where to submit names of volunteers!
The Kevorkian Life Extension Institute
😊👍. Didn’t zero population dude ehrlich just reduce the number?
Boolshit. Just fly from coast to coast during the daytime. You’ll see nothing but forests and rivers and lakes and general wilderness with an occasional populated area.
We should go back to whaling, Cheap ass blubber and a lot of dog food
And they know this because…
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