• Question: What will happen if the human population carries on growing and wipes out all the other wild animals?How long will it take if it keeps growing at this speed?

    Asked by TheChosenOne'sSidekick to Angela, Claire, Ian, Robert, Sarah on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Sarah Harris

      Sarah Harris answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I don’t think the human population could wipe out all other wild animals – they’re pretty resilient and without them it would be unlikely we could survive for long. We are endangering more species and the human population is growing though – scientists reckon the earth could an absolute max of 10 billion people, which could be reached as soon as 2100!

      (this probably won’t happen though – the birth rate in a lot of countries is decreasing and there’s an ageing population so it should level out – ish. )

    • Photo: Angela Stokes

      Angela Stokes answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      I dont think this will ever happen and I certainly hope it wont. The human population will level out….currently it is thought this will happen in 22 century.

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