I was in a disagreement with a friend about this topic (he thought it was and I didn’t). But we both just don’t know enough about it so I came here for help on the subject. Appreciate it!
Edit: so who is (more) right, me or my friend?
In: Economics
The most important factor to the problem over population is, “Carrying capacity.”
Plants, animals, water, atmosphere all continuously replenish themselves in the life cycle of our biome.
The carrying capacity of the Earth is basically measured against the impact humans have on the earth and the ability the Earth has to recover from it.
I’ve seen estimates that with advancements in agriculture in the shift towards sustainable forms of energy the carrying capacity of the earth is around 12 billion.
I saw another study that said if we didn’t have any of those things in place and it was just humans taking what they wanted from the Earth the earth would be able to sustain 3.5 billion people.
Without doing anything just fishing as much as we want to fish eating whatever we want to eat chopping down as much as we wanted to chop down the most humans that could live on the earth is 3.5 billion.
In my lifetime the population has gone from 4 billion to almost 8 billion in about three decades.
At that rate we’re going to hit the maximum carrying capacity of the Earth in less than 50 years.
So short answer long it’s becoming a problem.
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