What will happen when our population exceeds Earth's carrying capacity?

Question

What will happen when our population exceeds Earth's carrying capacity?

Answer 1

the most popular theory is we will sink..inevitably we will be further from the moon and it will be very dark at night so enticing more street lighting and therefore adding to global warming..so you can look forward to hot dark nights

Answer 2

we will run out of resources. the world's food supply will begin to be restricted, the less able to cope will die. those with health problems, the elderly and the young will be the first to pass away. unless there are major precautions and plans, there is really no other way to go.

Answer 3

Pretty much what is happening right now. Food shortages, depletion of natural resources and water. Humans are the only species that can't keep their numbers in check and refuse to let nature do it for them.

Answer 4

The population comes ultimately from earth only. It is always with in its carrying capacity.

Answer 5

You can't because everytime someone's born , another person dies .

Gave you a star that's kind of an interesting ?uestion ?

Answer 6

Don't worry. The Earth will always make a balance. Just like bacteria in a dish, even with an adequate food supply, we will die off in our own poisons. When there are too many people on this Earth, the weak will die until a point is reached where overpopulation is not a problem.

Answer 7

See the movie "Soylent Green"

Suggests that people will have an "expiry date" then are reprocessed for food: nasty but plausible.

Answer 8

It will never happen. Did you know that if every human stood shoulder to shoulder, they would fill an island the size of th Isle of White (just off the south coast of England 12*7 miles.

Answer 9

it will be like the Giver or there will only be a certain age u can live then they will just kill you and no one will beable to have a child for a while.

Answer 10

The population exceeded the Earth's carrying capacity 3.7 billion people ago.

Do you know what "carrying capacity" means?

"Carrying capacity is the number of individuals an environment can support without significant negative impacts to the given organism and its environment"

Definitely already exceeded.

Answer 11

If the population exceeds the Earth's capacity then we will have food shortages and water shortages and it would be such an ugly problem. People will starve and die. Also, there would be lots danger to our ecosystems and pollution would get worse and there wouldn't be enough housing for people. It would cause multiple families to live together. Also, many people wouldn't have as much money. Since oil is going up and we will run out in the future the population will start to decrease and it will be just like us going back to Medieval times.

Also, think of how empty the stores and markets would be if the population exceeded the world's capacity. Also, the laws could be like China's were you are only allowed to have 1 child and many countries would be doing the same thing if that happen. Think of how many unhappy people there would be.