What is the maximum sustainable human population earth can support?

Question

Assuming humans are willing to be stacked like cordwood half a mile high?

Taken strictly from the agricultural perspective.

Serious answers only please.

Answer 1

I am not sure this question can be answered in the agricultural section of science.  Food production is far greater than considered possible at the turn of the 19th century.   Academia, industry and the farming population have cooperated significantly over the last century and provided the world with an abundant supply of high quality food (I know others will disagree with the quality statement, but until proven otherwise I'll stand by it) to the point that obesity is a problem in many nations.  This increase in food production continues today.

The limits of shelter, space and water may be a greater limiting factor to the size of the human population than food production.

Answer 2

I guess we'll find out. It seems like we are all geared for growth and no one is stopping.

The large corporations have put local farmers out of business. Once the local farmers are out business, the developers move in and build. You can make ten times more money off thirty people on a mile, than just one family farm.

The price of food hasn't gone up since the 60's. Everything else, like housing costs, gas, cars, ect has gone up in price. That is what's pushing farmers out of business, they don't get anything for producing food.

It's better just to abondon everything and live like people did 300 year ago.

Answer 3

It depends on improving production, among other things. Suppose we could turn pollution into food or one day find a way to grow food in the desert? We can't know how much we can improve production until we try.

Meanwhile, not all, but a lot of the famine we have is  either the result of bad policy or someone, some government intentionally harming people by government policies. Eritrea and native American reservations in arid lands, for instance.

Answer 4

About four times what we have now.  Anymore than that, and were gonna run out of food and resources.  I think.

Answer 5

I read where the entire population on the planet can fit in the state of Texas. I also read that the population will taper off at a certain number, I think around 10 billion.

But it's not about how much the Earth can sustain, it's about how much the globalist controllers can control. Right now they are depopulating the planet using various means and culling out those who would be hard to control and be good workers. We are like slaves to these aberrated moron in-breds to be used on something like their plantation.

Answer 6

That depends on how well everyone wants to live.  The bottom of the page referenced below describes quality of life compared to maximum populations the world could support.

Answer 7

In 2030 there will be 10 billion,  a lot more than we should have. At the American standard of living the earth can sustain 1 to 2 billion. We are losing a lot of dry land behind the amount of people on the earth. It is a good thing for the earth, that most are in lower economies.

Answer 8

I think we've already reached it.  The earth is not sustaining the current human population.  I think that more and more humans are going to start disappearing from the earth in droughts and famine's within the next few years.

Answer 9

I'm not sure but I think we have passed it

Answer 10

dammit, i took a geolgy class that talked about this but the way americans live we use about 4 acres of land per person in terms of resources and agriculture.

i believe my profesor might have said our absolute limit is like 9 billion hope that helps

Answer 11

the earth can hold a lot of people soon we will be living in other place es like mars or the moon