On 1012: a check on earth carrying capacity for man. Final report
- Resource Type
- Technical Report
- Authors
- Source
- Subject
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES EARTH PLANET
RESOURCES
HUMAN POPULATIONS
GROWTH
DEMOGRAPHY
ENVIRONMENT
FOOD
GLOBAL ASPECTS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
WATER SUPPLY
PLANETS
POPULATIONS 510100* -- Environment, Terrestrial-- Basic Studies-- (-1989)
- Language
- English
The report examines the issue of how much human population the earth can tolerate. The result of this analysis is that from a technological point of view a trillion people can live beautifully on the Earth, for an unlimited time, without exhausting any primary resource and without overloading the environment. The global view of the problems and of their solutions makes the difference, and shows that most of the physical limits to growth stem from an inappropriate frame of reference.