In a significant 2004 paper reviewing 69 studies on world human population and carrying capacity, the authors estimated that the sustainable carrying capacity of humans for Earth is about

A) 600 million.
B) 2.5 billion.
C) 7.7 billion.
D) 20 billion.


C

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