Question: will the earth ever become over populated

Jonny Brooks-Bartlett answered on 21 Jun 2015:

Very good question. I assume you want to know whether it will become over populated by humans.

It’s likely that if we keep increasing the population size like we are currently then there will be a point when we can’t sustain so many people. Food will be scarce and there wont be enough land. This will then limit the amount of people that will be able to live on the Earth so then the population will stop increasing.

We don’t want this to happen so some scientists are trying to work out how we can cope with the increasing population