What is the capacity of our planet? What is the maximum amount of people it can hold?

Answer 1

That's a difficult question to answer, as it depends upon how we utilize the planet to sustain people. Asking how many it can hold is more hypothetical than how many it can sustain life for.

Answer 2

You and me do not have to worry as it is beyond our control.
The Creator manages it through the natural and un-natural calamities.
It is not the capacity of the planet which is critical, more critical may be the resources required to sustain the population.
The balance is kept well by nature to make the living things lead a useful life.
Besides Earth quakes, tsunamis and floods etc. human actions like 'War on Terror' and its further reaction also help keep the balance.
You need not to bother about the planet capacity. It however need to weed out some undesired elements who are a real menace for the humanity. Nature has a schedule for them also, it is only a matter of time.

Answer 3

It depends on what limiting factor you think can not be overcome. Taken to the logical extreme, assuming all limiting factors, like food supply and pollution control, were taken care of, then the limit would just be the physical volume taken up by human bodies and the heat produced by all those warm bodies (global warming of a different kind, like "The Matrix", where heat of bodies powers the world). Every time we though the limit had been reached, some new technology has come along to raise the limit. The "green revolution" improved farm productivity world wide to allow us to support a population today that could not have been supported just 100 years ago.

Answer 4

It can hold a lot of people, but more important than the number, is the other things those people need to survive. I, for one, do not want to wind up eating Soylent Green because there's nowhere to grow vegetables or raise animals for their meat. We need room to grow food, forests to provide oxygen and food and medicines (although much of the world's supply of oxygen is actually produced by algae), and room to grow. The world would be no fun if we all had to live in high rises and had no yards for children to play in, or national or state parks to preserve wildlife and provide recreation.
The number of people is a moot point, because we don't seem to be doing a great job of taking care of the ones who are here now, so we certainly don't need more.

Answer 5

Capacity of our planet is fixed. As it carries an amount living matter in forms of plants, animals, man, bacteria, viruses, dead organic matter which are inter convertible.
It can hold people equivalent to all these organic matters. But in that condition ecosystem will be entirely dismissed. And man will survive on artificial synthetic food, and non conventional energy resources like solar and tidal energy......

Answer 6

The Earth will never run out of space to place the human. There is much much more open grounds to build on, as well as under the sea (If we ever choose to).

But resources on the other hand, will run out if our lifestyles dont change.

Answer 7

Everybody.

Answer 8

quite frankly I think that this planet is only big enough for one person-me

Answer 9

you are idiot if you are asking this question