Please refer to the following interactive map as you complete this activity: https://worldpopulationhistory.org/map/2050/mercator/1/0/25/
Here are instructions for how to read the map: https://worldpopulationhistory.org/how-to-use-the-map/
For this journal entry, respond to the following:
- Can any organism follow an exponential growth forever? What are the limiting factors? Review the dynamics of human population growth in the past 2000 years.
- What does a dot represent on the map? In which part of the world will the number of humans increase most?
- Assuming that this prediction is accurate, discuss local and global consequences on the environment.
- Do you think that our planet can sustain a human population of 9 billion? Explain why.
- Finally share any thoughts you might have on that subject.