The population will keep increasing and because of this, the aggregate weight of all living beings is also going to increase. How will this impact our planet? The question is not wrt resources utilisation, food, etc. I just want to know the impact of all that mass increasing everyday as the population keeps increasing.
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There are only 2 ways for the mass of planet Earth to change: removing material from the planet and adding material to the planet. We are constantly losing an insignificant amount of mass due to atmospheric losses. Other than that, asteroids bring in new mass, and launching things to outer space reduces our mass. Everything on planet Earth is made up of matter that was already here and has just been reorganized into a new structure.
If I put you in a closed box with some food and you eat that food you get heavier while the box stays the same weight.
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