The Human Population is Quickly Reaching Carrying Capacity

The Human Population and Carrying Capacity

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A population is a biological unit that represents individuals of a species in given area . On the same note , carrying capacity is the maximum number of organisms that can use a given habitat area without degrading it or causing social stresses which may result in the population being reduced . The population reaches the carrying capacity at the point where the per capita birth rate becomes equal to the per capita death rate . The book The Future of

Life ' by Edward O 'Wilson talks about the nature of life on earth , how precious biodiversity is and further highlights the significance of losing it . With this in mind the essay discusses how the human population is quickly reaching capacity

This discussion is mostly tied to Chapter 2 of the book The future of life . The chapter is named The Bottleneck ' and highlights the birth rate of humans and status of the human population by 2050 . The author considers three scenarios and project values for the world population in 2050 . Wilson first calculates the world when the birth rate is increased , decreased or remains constant and concludes that the population will approach 9 billion by 2050 . In fact he matches up the rate of population growth to that of bacteria (Wilson , 2008

Projections show that the global population will estimate 9 billion in 2040 (U .S Census Bureau , 2009 . Other sources estimate 2050 population at...