World-wide food supply, or the ability to produce food, generally grows linearly while population tends to grow exponentially, if left unchecked. Explain why this is such a problem and illustrate with graphs.

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World-wide food supply, or the ability to produce food, generally grows linearly while population tends to grow exponentially, if left unchecked.  Explain why this is such a problem and illustrate with graphs.

anonymous · Answer

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please excuse my really bad drawings :)
lets say the food production and population both start at 5
food production goes up at a linear rate of 5 per year.
the population rate goes up at an exponential rate of 2
after 5 years your food production is at 25, but your population is at 80
this could be sort of a problem