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No, population increases on earth do not increase the mass of the earth. Plants and animals arise (via life processes) from using the materials on the earth to build their structures and enlarge. These living organisms convert existing material into themselves. Plants and animals alike perform these "conversions" throughout their lives, and have done so from time immemorial.

It could be argued that the earth is gaining mass because it continually "captures" material from space in the form of subatomic particles from the solar wind, but that would be as nothing compared to the tiny bits of dust and rock that the earth "gobbles up" 24-7. p-u-s-s-yThere are even occasional large rocks and such slamming into the surface of the earth (the smaller ones are burned up in the atmosphere). All this adds mass to the earth. Light, which is energy and is weightless, adds nothing to the mass of the earth, though sunlight drives almost all of the biochemical chains of life on earth.

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