ELI5, wont we run out of “resources” to make more people ?

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Only thing I remember from science class, We cant create things everything transform. So Earth got only “limited” amount of atoms? With the growth of the human population wont we run out of resources/atoms/molecules to make more babies or at the expense of something elese on the planet ?

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Kind of, but not in the way you’re thinking. People don’t just appear out of nothing, sucking in the atoms around them. They’re created and grow through energy and atomic transfers. We get that as sustenance through food. Women who don’t recieve enough sustenance to support a fetus, then the fetus will strip what it needs from the mother, causing weakness in bones, teeth, anaemia, etc. When they’re born if you don’t get enough sustenance to grow you can end up stunted or die.

So it’s sustenance that is the important resource for making and creating new people.

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