Thomas Malthus developed his theory about human population growth when understanding of the world technology and society were very much different than they are today. Some believe that we are approaching or may have surpassed Earth's carrying capacity. Joel Cohen, a mathematical biologist at Rockefeller University, reviewed estimates spanning 300 years of thinking about the maximum human population size the planet can hold, converged on a median value of 10-12 billion.

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