What will happen with the increasing population? We might never know in this lifetime..
According to the UN,world, population reached 7 billion on October 31, 2011. In my AP Human Geography class we had a party to celebrate it. I mean it isn't everyday your species reaches a population of 7 billion!
But should we have been celebrating it? There are unknown consequences of this large of a human population. Many have predicted a decline in the next hundreds of years as humans reach the Earth's carrying capacity, but will humans take the Earth down with them when they reach the capacity? Does more people= More consuming= more extracting of resources= eventual depletion= Earth in trouble?
Below is an awesome video about the steep increase of human population, mostly due to medicine and agriculture.
Visualizing How a Population Reaches 7 Billion from NPR on Vimeo.
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