At the current rate of growth, the Earth’s human population will double in about 50 years. Already we have nearly 1 billion people without adequate nutrition and this is expected to worsen. Thanos, villain of the Marvel Avengers movies, believed that he could solve Earth’s population predicament by killing half the population. Which of the following best explains why this strategy would ultimately fail?? a. The catastrophic dieback would be a positive feedback loop that would ultimately result in the extinction of the human race.
b. According to Malthusian Theory, the remaining population would rapidly grow to consume the newly available excess resources rather than maintain the high standard of living that Thanos was trying to create.
c. Because humans are more K-selected, and there would be an overall increase in environmental resistance, after a brief irruptive growth, the population would crash and dieback again.
d. With the immediate absence of half the world, humanity would be left vulnerable to disease. As poverty and population density increases, more diseases would spread, killing more people.