Earth's environmental systems and human population growth

Abstract

Exponential growth of the human population has led to increasing alteration of the earth's environmental systems. Models of some major biogeochemical and climate systems are evaluated. It will take the contributions of many different scientific disciplines to improve the current state of knowledge concerning the complex, interacting systems which regulate our environment. Stabilizing the population of the developing countries can best be achieved through a modified version of the demographic transition which emmulates mature ecosystem attributes.