What is the projected year that our planet will be too crowded by humans to increase our numbers any higher?

Question

My question is meant to be based on the "break-point" where our population will ultimately lead to mass chaos/looting because of the overcrowding, not simply not enough space to "fit" everyone.

Thanks for your thoughts!!

Answer 1

I agree with the guy about the rats, in a cage. When they get over crowded the males turn on each other and fight to the death.
I read in National Geographic that the earth was designed to hold 4 billion people. With half being set aside for public land. clifts, forests and just plain no livable. The other half could be given out in familys. 4 acres per person and 8 acres per family.
on it they grow their own food and fertilize there own crops and build their own house. ON a strictly vegetarian diet allowing milk and eggs. We could have two children per family and sustain our selves virtually forever. But, by having more and upsetting the ecological balance, and living in crowded cities and over farming to produce food for the growing cities we are destroying the very planet we need to survive on. That is leaving polution and wars and all other things out of the equation.
We could live on this earth forever, but chances are it said we will be gone in another 100 years. When some third world country gets the nuclear capability and a religous zealout starts an all out nuclear war. There will be no survivors.

Answer 2

There isn't such a number. The Earth is still under-populated despite the scary stories you hear on the news.

The problems of the "teeming masses" in places like Africa, India and China are a result of an improper method of distribution of food and services because the governments are so inefficient.

If every single American moved to Texas they would each have an acre of land!!

So, don't worry about a so-called "breaking point", it's a myth.

Answer 3

I recall some psychological experiments that were done with mice that went along the lines of your question. As population increased, the scientist increased the needed resources of food and water, but not space. Eventually the test area was overrun with mice, yet despite the abundance of food and water, social chaos ensued. More fights broke out, resulting in injuries and death. Isolationist attitudes flared and the population began to die off to lower levels.

Sorry to say I don't recall who did the experiment or any links to it, however it was done as research geared towards what could potentially happen with people.

Answer 4

Somewhere between 2050 and 2070. My biology teacher told me. The population will stop growing because we will have reached what is called Earth's "carrying capacity." The population will remin more or less the same for a few decades and then begin to plumett, starting the cycle all over again.

Answer 5

The forecasters keep changing their forecasts. They are just like weather forecasters except that the weather guessers get it right once in a while. However, there are reasons the forecasters are wrong - Technology improves crop yields, brith rates decline as the world population becomes more educated bing two of them

Answer 6

I have Sean some graphs and it didn't predict the year but the break point was 10 billion. This was several years ago and we may have some bad wars and kill 3 billion people.
Hope this helps.