A very interesting topic. How much does the human population can reach? Which is our carrying capacity?
Different opinions were shared in class. Some said that we had already past our carrying capacity for more than 4 billion organisms. Others said that we are reaching it already. The odd thing was that non of us though we have too much time before we reached our carrying capacity (K)
We have to take into account that in contrast to the other species, we have created a very complex economic system that maintains our society in order and measures the “power” of each entity. This directly affect the dynamics of the our population by stating the repartition of resources and define relationship between entities.
In order to establish an equal share of resources for each organism the population would have to decrease. This is because , even if the global economic system changes its standards, there isn’t enough resources to maintain the actual 6 billion human population.
A simulation of the human population dynamics can be found in this webpage www.breathingearth.net It’s pretty interesting.
