A Philosophers View of Our Carrying Capacity

A Philosophers View of Our Carrying Capacity

A Story by Brody Childs

By the year 2100, it is predicted that we will have 10 billion people on this planet. That's 10 billion people who need food, water, and shelter. Therefore, these necessities have the potential to become the focus of wars. Nations fighting simply to get enough water and food to survive a coming winter. It would even be feasible that governments would collapse from the inability to supply it's citizens with basic needs. Ultimately, this would lead to private citizens fighting for survival.

Animal populations have always followed a simple pattern. The population would rise and eventfully reach a carrying capacity set by the habitable area, the amount of food, and the amount of water. As the animal population nears this cap, the birthrates begin to slow down leading to the impending plateau. This plateau, however, is only temporary. Eventually, habitable area, food, and water will begin to deplete. Then the population falls.

Humanity is on it's slow climb to the projected carrying capacity of the Earth totaling in about 10 billion people under perfect conditions. (It is also poignant to note that these 'perfect conditions' consist of the world being entirely reliant on grain and under severe resource regulation.) While some use the decrease in human birthrates as a sign that humanity will be 'ok,' it, as stated above, only signals the coming population cap. A crash is unavoidable as humanity's growth can not be stopped and the perfect conditions required for 10 billion people to exist are near impossible to achieve due to humanity's, sometimes destructive, nature of individuality.

In the end, there is not much that can be done. Humanity is on a roller coaster. We rise slowly into the sky and in the immortal words, "what goes up must come down."

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© 2015 Brody Childs


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