# How many healthy people can the earth support?

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Christopher Dye
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Earth and environment
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/how-many-healthy-people-can-earth-support)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

From Malthus to the Club of Rome, predictions about maximum population size have been too conservative. We now live with 6-7 billion others and the "population bomb" is yet to explode. So what really is the upper limit for healthy coexistence?

## Lectures

1. [How many healthy people can the earth support?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/how-many-healthy-people-can-earth-support/a0457acc7065) (YouTube)