SCIENTISTS GOT CANDID ABOUT EARTH'S TRUE CARRYING CAPACITY

BY JILLIAN OLIVER/OCT. 3, 2022 1:31 PM EDT

Human population growth is a contentious issue in discussions about natural resources and climate change. At about 7.8 billion people and counting (via Population Reference Bureau), scientists and the general public are wondering just how many people Earth can reasonably accommodate before we exhaust its resources. To refer to this problem, scientists use the term "carrying capacity." This year, the United Nations utilized census data from 1,758 populations to conduct its annual world population study and came back with projections that are bringing the discussion to the foreground.

The current projection maintains that the human population will hit 8 billion by November of 2022. 

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