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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Rolling the dice that OPs unspoken theory was that it’s humanity’s biomass that is “growing”, which as others have said – that doesn’t create mass – it’s already here, and inconsequential at planetary scales. But anyways – UN and Pew Research recently projected that human population growth will flatten to about 11 billion by 2100 anyways. Birth rates are falling in the developing world, and replacement rates are already nearly flat to negative in parts of the western world (Japan, Italy). There’s no risk of overburdening the earth with increased weight, thus the effect is zero. It’s all a redistribution of materials in the same environment, even if everyone dropped dead from environmental degradation or a rampant virus. You can’t make or destroy matter completely.
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