If water was money and grass was credit, and Cheetahs and Gazelles were people, who would be who?

Current world population    6.8 billion

 

Net growth per day      218,030

 

2040 Forecast    9 billion

 

Census Bureau

 

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

 

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate

 of the global population.

 

The planet can't support many more people.

 

Dr Nina Fedoroff

National Medal of Science Laureate

Professor of Molecular Biology

Science and Technology Advisor

 to the US Secretary of State since 2007

 

If Gazelles need water and grass

and Cheetahs need water and Gazelles

and an abundance of sustenance leads to more Gazelles,

should more Gazelles and water lead to more Cheetahs?

 

If too many Gazelles relative to water and grass lead to fewer Gazelles,

do fewer Gazelles  =  fewer Cheetahs?

 

Population, when unchecked,

increases in a geometrical ratio.

 

Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratio.

 

Thomas Robert Malthus

Suggested populations could increase faster than food supplies