Write a 200-300 word response addressing the following points: What is the current estimate of the worldwide human population at this moment? Describe how this number is changing moment-to-moment, day-to-day, and from one year to the next. Describe how the human population growth issue has and will affect the ecosystem.

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I am having problems find the answers to the second part of the question where it says to Describe how this number is changing moment to moment, day to day, and from one year to the next and Describe how the human population growth issue has and will affect the ecosystem. Please help me on this.

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World population is curren;y increasing at a rate of 77 million people, or 1.2%, per year. Divide that by 365 to get the rate per day, which is 210,000. Divide that by 1440 minutes/day for the number of people per minute.

The average energy consumption per person has been growing along with the population. There is already not enough fresh water to support much of the world's population.

I recommend that you do your own research on the effects of future shortage of water, energy, and arable land that will result, as well as the loss of habitat for endangered animals. Increasing population will increase in "greenhouse" gases (mainly CO2) in the atmosphere and lead to global warming and rising sea level.