How Does The Population Affect Mars

Our move to Mars would certainly have a great effect on the population on both the planets Earth and Mars. The population of Earth would firstly be affected by those who go to colonize Mars and secondly by any other restrictions put upon them to ensure the survival of the Mars colony. The population of Mars would be affected by the initial colony arrival and affected more with the growth of the colony over time. As the colony on Mars goes on the population on Mars will likely rise and the exponential growth of Earth’s population will likely shrink. The Mars colony is planned to have some slightly different population growth strategies than others. To begin with, my colony will have little to no growth in the first five years of it’s time on Mars. This is to allow …show more content…
In addition, my colony will not be receiving another shipment of people from Earth at any point of time. Unless, of course, there is an emergency such as colony collapse for various reasons requiring more people to be added to the colony from Earth we will do so. Lastly, my colony will only begin with a shipment of one hundred people to minimize shipping weight and problems with housing the initial colony of a large size. These different strategies of my Mars colony are likely to affect how the exponential population growth of Earth and Mars would act in comparison to other potential colonies. If we decided to continue living on Earth and interacting with it the way we currently are, we would be in a lot of trouble. First of all, the population would increase greatly over the next 10, 100, and 500 years. Using the formula for compound interest, A=P(1+r/n)nt, we can easily calculate the population of Earth in the next 10, 100, and 500 years without having to repeat the equation 500 times. By entering our principal, an estimated 7.421 billion people, our rate of increase, 1.31%, the timespan for the rate, one year, and our time, ten years, we will get our population in ten years to be at 8.452