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What will happened when the human population exceeds the earths carrying capacity?
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∙ 7y ago
Stick around for 40 or 50 years and you will see. We will run out of resources to sustain the population, and at the same time some of the most populated areas of the planet will become uninhabitable.
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∙ 13y ago
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