What's the Maximum Number of People that can live on Earth?

[Animal]

I think the total world population right now is almost 8 billion. I just wonder what the cap is for the number of humans that can live on this one planet at the same time?

What got me thinking about this was watching some show not long ago and I think they said that in the history of the world around 3.5 billion people had been killed. That number might be high, because on google source said its around 1 billion. It got me thinking that if those 3 billion people hadn't died, that would have obviously had an enormous impact on the number of people alive right now. Instead of 8 billion, it might have been twice that.

[JCW]

Do you mean how many people we have resources to support, or how much space can possibly be occupied by humans, or how much weight the earth can support before it throws off its rotation? There are so many different possible answers.

[FSchmertz]

Do you mean how many people we have resources to support, or how much space can possibly be occupied by humans, or how much weight the earth can support before it throws off its rotation? There are so many different possible answers.

I think the answer would be "which of these would be the limiting factor, and what's that number of people?"

[WestTexasCrude]

I think the total world population right now is almost 8 billion. I just wonder what the cap is for the number of humans that can live on this one planet at the same time?

What got me thinking about this was watching some show not long ago and I think they said that in the history of the world around 3.5 billion people had been killed. That number might be high, because on google source said its around 1 billion. It got me thinking that if those 3 billion people hadn't died, that would have obviously had an enormous impact on the number of people alive right now. Instead of 8 billion, it might have been twice that.

Actually saw an interesting National Geographic article on future population trends about 3 years ago. I was kinda shocked- very optimistic. Get the modern economy to areas of Africa and Asia needed , plunging birth rates. No way you can predict, of course. But some studies suggest we we will be down below 4 Billion in a Century or 2. God knows, the Earth needs a break from us.

[JCW]

I'm not a sociologist, I'm just thinking what criteria might be used to determine "maximum". I thought I heard at one point that only a small percentage of landmass on earth was actually inhabited so by that logic, theres a whole lot of remote and desolate corners of earth we could spread to.

On the food front, farming insect protein takes drastically less land and resources, so if we switched to crickets instead of cows, a lot more people could be getting fed per square foot of farmland.

I dont even know if the earth's rotation getting thrown off is a thing, I may have just made that up while high.

[VisionaryEric]

10 billion

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[JCW]

10 billion

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That's not far off. Do us a favour and never reproduce. Let that gene pool die out before it's too late.

[WestTexasCrude]

I'm not a sociologist, I'm just thinking what criteria might be used to determine "maximum". I thought I heard at one point that only a small percentage of landmass on earth was actually inhabited so by that logic, theres a whole lot of remote and desolate corners of earth we could spread to.

On the food front, farming insect protein takes drastically less land and resources, so if we switched to crickets instead of cows, a lot more people could be getting fed per square foot of farmland.

I dont even know if the earth's rotation getting thrown off is a thing, I may have just made that up while high.

Or while Trolling. Same difference . You do realize that the motel cleaning JetCityWoman may know who Einstein is, but to her "Relativity" means everybody's daily bowel movements. Get the Fuck out of here, Troll. Ends of the Earth until you come clean.

[megman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

[Blast]

God knows, UJR needs a break from me.

You said a mouthful there Idyut!

Feed your intestines to a flock of starving penguins.

[JCW]

Or while Trolling. Same difference . You do realize that the motel cleaning JetCityWoman may know who Einstein is, but to her "Relativity" means everybody's daily bowel movements. Get the Fuck out of here, Troll. Ends of the Earth until you come clean.

Serious question... did your mother have any children that lived?

[Blast]

Or while Trolling. Same difference . You do realize that the motel cleaning JetCityWoman may know who Einstein is, but to her "Relativity" means everybody's daily bowel movements. Get the Fuck out of here, Troll. Ends of the Earth until you come clean.

Serious question... did your mother have any children that lived?

Looks like the best part of him ran down the crack of his momma's ass and wound up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think he's been cheated!

[JCW]

Or while Trolling. Same difference . You do realize that the motel cleaning JetCityWoman may know who Einstein is, but to her "Relativity" means everybody's daily bowel movements. Get the Fuck out of here, Troll. Ends of the Earth until you come clean.

Serious question... did your mother have any children that lived?

Looks like the best part of him ran down the crack of his momma's ass and wound up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think he's been cheated!

Such a good and fucked up movie.

[Blast]

Or while Trolling. Same difference . You do realize that the motel cleaning JetCityWoman may know who Einstein is, but to her "Relativity" means everybody's daily bowel movements. Get the Fuck out of here, Troll. Ends of the Earth until you come clean.

Serious question... did your mother have any children that lived?

Looks like the best part of him ran down the crack of his momma's ass and wound up as a brown stain on the mattress! I think he's been cheated!

Such a good and fucked up movie.

The bootcamp portion is my favorite part of it. The rest I could take or leave.

[WestTexasCrude]

Or while Trolling. Same difference . You do realize that the motel cleaning JetCityWoman may know who Einstein is, but to her "Relativity" means everybody's daily bowel movements. Get the Fuck out of here, Troll. Ends of the Earth until you come clean.

Serious question... did your mother have any children that lived?

Actually, way more than your mother aborted, Go figure. Knowing you- wise decision.

[JCW]

Or while Trolling. Same difference . You do realize that the motel cleaning JetCityWoman may know who Einstein is, but to her "Relativity" means everybody's daily bowel movements. Get the Fuck out of here, Troll. Ends of the Earth until you come clean.

Serious question... did your mother have any children that lived?

Actually, way more than your mother aborted, Go figure. Knowing you- wise decision.

You just said my mom hasnt had many abortions. Swing and a miss, slugger.

[Wut]

God knows, UJR needs a break from me.

You said a mouthful there Idyut!

Feed your intestines to a flock of starving penguins.

This is one of your better ones, well done.

[Wut]

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[B-Tender]

Drawing from George Carlin like inspiration, the earth can support many dozens of billions of people. Unfortunately the people will fuck it up, not the earth.

[Antknot]

One less than too many.

[Stapes]

I'm not a sociologist, I'm just thinking what criteria might be used to determine "maximum". I thought I heard at one point that only a small percentage of landmass on earth was actually inhabited so by that logic, theres a whole lot of remote and desolate corners of earth we could spread to.

On the food front, farming insect protein takes drastically less land and resources, so if we switched to crickets instead of cows, a lot more people could be getting fed per square foot of farmland.

I dont even know if the earth's rotation getting thrown off is a thing, I may have just made that up while high.

[Systemofaclown]

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Good answer... good answer. Nice of you to get involved Mr helper.

[Animal]

Do you mean how many people we have resources to support, or how much space can possibly be occupied by humans, or how much weight the earth can support before it throws off its rotation? There are so many different possible answers.

Yeah, I mean how many people can the resources available on earth supply.

[AnalHamster]

or how much weight the earth can support before it throws off its rotation?

derrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[AnalHamster]

If the weight of all the people is looking likely to throw the earth of it's rotation, we can just tie a big rope to africa and have everyone pull on it really hard