Eli5-Effect of increasing weight on planet Earth

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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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You’re not pulling mass from the ether, you’re eating food and drinking water to create more human. There is no net change in mass.

The Earth is so unimaginably massive that the entire human population is rounding error anyway. All of humanity is maybe 10^10 kg, the earth is 10^24 kg, 14 orders of magnitude heavier.

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