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Earth's Population Has Surpassed The Planet's Capacity, Study Suggests
ScienceAlert ^ | 7 April, 2026 | Jess Cockerill

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fakescience; ifhfakescience; immigration; jesscockerill; malthusian; malthusianism; misanthropy
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Once I ran the numbers: each person’s equal share of Earth is eight acres.


41 posted on 04/06/2026 8:38:55 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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To: Hebrews 11:6

that is meaningless. The vast majority live in cities, and the vast majority of the earth is uninhabited


42 posted on 04/06/2026 8:40:45 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Alas Babylon!

Is that Larry Birds great, great, great grandfather?


43 posted on 04/06/2026 8:42:20 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: AZJeep

Longer than that.


44 posted on 04/06/2026 9:01:25 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: anthropocene_x

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.


45 posted on 04/06/2026 9:02:05 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: anthropocene_x

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.


46 posted on 04/06/2026 9:10:53 PM PDT by Bob434 (NYWAYS)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

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


47 posted on 04/06/2026 9:14:47 PM PDT by Bob434 (NYWAYS)
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To: anthropocene_x

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....


48 posted on 04/06/2026 9:15:36 PM PDT by BFW
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To: anthropocene_x

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.


49 posted on 04/06/2026 9:19:31 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: anthropocene_x

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!


50 posted on 04/06/2026 9:20:12 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (All we need is 177k signatures to get a referendum on freedom in Alberta!)
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To: marktwain

Who in their right mind would want to live in space?


51 posted on 04/06/2026 9:21:03 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

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.


52 posted on 04/06/2026 9:24:34 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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To: anthropocene_x
Studies like this are silly and plainly false. Assuming 0 technological progress, we could still sustain a population 1000X (not 1000%, one thousands times as much) on earth. Keep in mind that raw materials/elements, that is matter, do not just vanish into oblivion in violation of the first law of thermodynamics. They can be recycled, assuming you have energy. And between breeder reactors and solar power and such we do have effectively endless energy, which can not only be used for current needs but also to recycle all the materials they imagine are being "used up."

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.

53 posted on 04/06/2026 9:31:01 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: anthropocene_x

If there are too many people, we could always depopulate (exterminate) China, India, Indonesia and most of the middle East. Problems solved.


54 posted on 04/06/2026 9:32:10 PM PDT by JosephW (Lost women seek a new daddy by voting for left wing candidates, instead of having strong husbands.)
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To: anthropocene_x

Anyone know where to submit names of volunteers!


55 posted on 04/06/2026 9:46:01 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: rktman

The Kevorkian Life Extension Institute


56 posted on 04/06/2026 9:47:36 PM PDT by JosephW (Lost women seek a new daddy by voting for left wing candidates, instead of having strong husbands.)
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To: JosephW

😊👍. Didn’t zero population dude ehrlich just reduce the number?


57 posted on 04/06/2026 10:13:25 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: anthropocene_x

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.


58 posted on 04/06/2026 10:59:09 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: anthropocene_x

We should go back to whaling, Cheap ass blubber and a lot of dog food


59 posted on 04/06/2026 11:16:25 PM PDT by medical conservative
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To: anthropocene_x

And they know this because…


60 posted on 04/07/2026 2:51:54 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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