There are approximately 6,947,513,231 billion people now in the world, according to the US Census Bureau. The human population changes depending on vital statistics of birth and deaths and also mechanical social factors such as immigrants and emigrants. This information can change by the year, the day, or second. As of this moment there have been 295,320 births and 135,740 deaths with a net population growth of 159, 840 as of this moment today and that number is steady rising by the second. There are several different estimates of the world’s current population that varies depending on the assumptions of estimates in other countries. It is said that world’s current growth rate is about 1.3% and that number has doubled in the last 5 years. It is also said that the population will double again by the year 2054 to about 12 billion people. If this continues than we are going to exceed our growth capacity on earth and the ability to provide for all our basic needs for survival. With the corruption of our environment the capacity that the earth holds actually decreases over time leaving the environment with the inability to be able to support the people living. The survival of the population correlates with the survival of the environment. There are many things that can impact the ecosystem that carries and provide life for so many people. In order for humans and other organisms to survive we have to consume large amounts of food and we do this by modifying land to produce food. The ecosystem is being severely damaged by the large growing number of people. We as humans need various things such as food, oil, wood and water to survive that comes from our environment. There are things that we do that are supposed to aid in our survival such as plowing land to plant crops for food or drilling for oil which we use in our cars that can emit harmful gases into our environment but is yet very important and necessary for our economy. These damages correlate with the...