December 13, 2009
salonika: BBC Horizon - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? per capita usage of global hectares in india (0.89), africa (1.37), china (2.11), europe (4.45), the UK (5.33), and the USA (9.42). an equal distribution across earth’s human population would be 2 per capita. if the indian average was global, earth’s carrying capacity would be 15 billion humans; 18 billion at the rwandan average; 2.5 billion at the UK average; and 1.5 billion at the USA average.

salonika:

BBC Horizon - How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?

per capita usage of global hectares in india (0.89), africa (1.37), china (2.11), europe (4.45), the UK (5.33), and the USA (9.42). an equal distribution across earth’s human population would be 2 per capita.

if the indian average was global, earth’s carrying capacity would be 15 billion humans; 18 billion at the rwandan average; 2.5 billion at the UK average; and 1.5 billion at the USA average.