Lec 30 MIT 7 014 Introductory Biology Spring 2005

Description: actually see a shift. We've gone from growing faster, and faster, and faster to actually growing more slowly. The doubling time is extending. So, the good news is we're not in some kind of runaway population growth that's going to continue forever. We've already peaked out as a globe, and we are going to level off in terms humans. And the real big question is when we level off, will we be above the carrying capacity of the Earth? Have we overshot K? And we don't know yet because these ...