Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Benjamin Rubinger Reveals the enormous physical possibilities of happy, healthy human populations on Earth, using only current technologies and their expectable developments. Go beyond gloomy population limits of 4 - 10 billion to see exactly how we can support trillions with this series of limit analyses. https://benjamin-rubinger.github.io/human-carrying-capacity-of-the-earth.html en-us false no 7805c9ed-5335-5027-94a4-a12db691a2ed Benjamin Rubinger serial 36276fbb-5a35-5fcc-9109-381369acfbf0 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Welcome to Human Carrying Capacity of the Earth! This chapter covers the question, what carrying capacity is, what sustainable is, and describes previous work with other estimates of the human carrying capacity of the Earth. 350 https://benjamin-rubinger.github.io/human-carrying-capacity-of-the-earth.html#Introduction 1 1 full false 85423536-fd61-5bd6-b1ed-afe35245094d Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Explains and addresses environmental concerns, offers space colonization as the solution to conservation concerns, and keeps the focus on the limit analysis of human carrying capacity on Earth. 286 https://benjamin-rubinger.github.io/human-carrying-capacity-of-the-earth.html#Environmental-Conservation 1 2 full false 1d5951f9-c95a-5a90-9356-e5df66d26ac6 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Describes the purpose and approach of this analysis, provides a timeline of population growth, and lists all of the bottlenecks it will consider. 395 https://benjamin-rubinger.github.io/human-carrying-capacity-of-the-earth.html#Rules-of-This-Game 1 3 full false 2c4f83cf-c6e7-5239-988e-4e05656a7f2c Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Covers the square-cube law, the volume required per person, a moderate scenario using only already-inhabited land, the habitable space of the Earth, and the Earth population limit of habitable space. 281 https://benjamin-rubinger.github.io/human-carrying-capacity-of-the-earth.html#Space 1 4 full false cfb0cb96-3d05-529c-9b81-5b7599e5b6b4 Sat, 06 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Describes water management, the water required per-person and the Earth population limit of water. 169 https://benjamin-rubinger.github.io/human-carrying-capacity-of-the-earth.html#Water 1 5 full false e25b4a8b-1fcc-54a5-a97d-d048adb0a612 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Explains indoor agriculture, compares indoor vs outdoor agriculture, and emphasizes the omnivorous diet. 292 https://benjamin-rubinger.github.io/human-carrying-capacity-of-the-earth.html#Food 1 6 full false 9581a6eb-4695-51a4-9d96-9be3883fc412 Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Introduces elemental limits, and analyzes Oxygen, Silicon, Calcium, Iron, Aluminum, Nitrogen, Carbon, Chromium, Copper, Potassium and Phosphorus. Addresses waste management and recycling. 549 https://benjamin-rubinger.github.io/human-carrying-capacity-of-the-earth.html#Elements 1 7 full false 65c97162-0149-5d4f-82f0-2eaeba2c5378 Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Discusses energy generation technologies, passive vs active, considers conventional nuclear power, geothermal, terrestrial solar power, space-based solar power (SBSP), the energy required per person, the Earth population limits of geothermal and terrestrial solar, the challenges of a space-based solar power constellation, and SBSP scaling 1128 https://benjamin-rubinger.github.io/human-carrying-capacity-of-the-earth.html#Energy 1 8 full false 60914944-075c-5fc3-9e47-a6fb78562ce2 Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Introduces thermodynamic problems for human habitats, whether to make the Earth's surface uninhabitable, outgoing longwave radiation (OLR), eliminating the greenhouse effect using sequestration, the thermal structure of the human habitat, the Earth population limit of heat, thermodynamic bottlenecks, and the conclusion. 2111 https://benjamin-rubinger.github.io/human-carrying-capacity-of-the-earth.html#Heat 1 9 full false