The current carrying capacity of Earth for the human population m...

Question

The current carrying capacity of Earth for the human population may have been inflated by                   .
a. demographic momentum;
b. the tendency for women to want to control family size;
c. an artificially low number of density-independent factors;
d. our use of fossil fuels;
e. recent population crashes

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone. And in today's video we are going to have the following problems. We need to identify the factors that can contribute to increasing the earth's carrying capacity for the human population. Now in case you forgot, I want to help you recall what the carrying capacity of a certain environment is. And here you have definition. So the carrying capacity is the maximum population that a certain environment can withstand of species and the species. In the case of the problem is going to be the human population. So what can help the earth take on more humans or just increase the human population. So let's go over answer choices so we can determine this. So answer choice. A states harnessing of the energy contained in fossil fuels. So what is the result of this? The result is going to be more energy being available for humans. If humans have more availability to energy, we're going to be able to produce more tech or more technology which is eventually going to be beneficial for us and help us expand our population. So it is actually a correct answer choice. Moving on we have answer choice B increased food production as a result of better agricultural techniques. If we have better agricultural techniques, we're going to be able to produce more food. If we have more food readily avai we can feed a larger population which is also going to increase the human population. So this is also a correct answer choice. Moving on we have sea organization organization is used the take up of using unoccupied line land and transforming it into highly dense just human settlements or cities. So this is going to help us settle or find space for larger population. So this is actually how we're going to be able to settle down these increased carrying capacity. So all of these answer choices actually contribute to increasing the Earth's carrying capacity for the human population. And we will highlight answer choice D all of the above as our final answer. So I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you on the next one.

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