The sustainability of human populations

doi:10.1111/j.1740-9713.2007.00241.x

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Volume 4 Issue 3, Pages 102 - 107

Published Online: 30 Aug 2007

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The sustainability of human populations

How many people can live on Earth?

Martin Desvaux ¹

¹ Physicist who spent the majority of his professional life directing independent research into high temperature materials for the electrical power and petrochemical industries at ERA Technology Ltd. He has spent the last 8 years researching the history of human impact on the environment, ecology, demography and the viability of renewable energy systems to make an impact on emissions and global warming. He is a member of the Institute of Physics and the Optimum Population Trust (www.optimumpopulation.org).

ABSTRACT

We live on an over-crowded Earth whose population is 6 billion and rising. How many people can the planet feed, clothe and water? Is there a limit to the number that the earth can sustain? And have we passed that limit already?Martin Desvaux looks at the weight of our numbers.

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