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-Bradshaw, CJA, MA Judge, DT Blumstein, PR Ehrlich, ANZ Dasgupta, M Wackernagel, LJZ Weeda, PN Le Souëf. Global human population ended self-facilitation in the 1950s.
+<a href="https://globalecologyflinders.com/people/#DIRECTOR">Bradshaw, CJA</a>, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Melinda-Judge">MA Judge</a>, <a href="https://blumsteinlab.eeb.ucla.edu/who-we-are/">DT Blumstein</a>, <a href="https://profiles.stanford.edu/paul-ehrlich?releaseVersion=10.8.0">PR Ehrlich</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/aisha-dasgupta-phd-911a4182/">ANZ Dasgupta</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathis-wackernagel-b4446a9/">M Wackernagel</a>, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lewis-Weeda">LJZ Weeda</a>, <a href="https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/peter-le-souef">PN Le Souëf</a>. Global human population ended self-facilitation in the 1950s.
 
 ## Abstract
 Applied to human populations, the ecological concept of carrying capacity is necessarily complicated because human beings are the "ultimate ecosystem engineers" who deliberately and successfully moderate their environment for their benefit. For at least that last few hundred years, human ingenuity, access to massive stocks of fossil fuels, and technological development have driven facilitation whereby increasing human abundance promoted higher population growth rates. However, this positive relationship broke down during the 1950s, and by 1962, the global human population entered a negative phase where the growth rate consistently declined as population increased. The onset of the negative phase was approximately contemporaneous with a global biocapacity deficit that began in 1970 and has increased ever since. The onset of the negative phase varies regionally, with the lowest-income regions entering this phase later than higher-income regions. A Ricker logistic model fitted to the negative phase predicts a 'maximum carrying capacity' of 11.55 to 12.26 billion global population reached between 2065 and 2074. The same model fitted to the facilitation phase predicts an 'optimal carrying capacity' of 2.5 billion people, in line with economics-based estimates of equitable wealth distribution (3.3 billion) and an ecological footprint of 0.5 planets (2.35 billion). The negative phase also correlates strongly with the trend in global temperature anomaly, demonstrating the environmental feedback emerging from the combination of population size and over-consumption. The Earth cannot sustain the future human population, or even today's, without a major overhaul of socio-cultural practices for using land, water, energy, biodiversity, and other resources. Future sustainable development must therefore meet the needs and aspirations of today's societies while simultaneously ensuring that future generations can meet their own.