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Does the Earth have the natural resources to support this many people?
Unfortunately, the answer to this question depends on information we don't have.
For example, we don't know how people will choose to live in the future.
We don't know what their standard of living will be.
We also don't know what new technologies will be available in the future.
We do know that the Earth's natural resources are limited.
Fresh water, for example, is crucial for health and food production.
However, more than 97% of the water on Earth is salt water, which is poisonous to both people and crops.
Only 3% of the water on Earth is fresh water, and three quarters of that fresh water is frozen at the North and South Poles.
Today, the demands for fresh water is greater than the supply in roughly eighty countries around the world.
By 2025, scientists predict that forty-eight countries will have chronic shortages of water.
At present, disalinization, or the removal of salt from salt water, is not a solution to the shortage of fresh water.
It takes a lot of energy to remove the salt from ocean water, and that makes the disalinization process very expensive.
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