A Pedagogical Model of CO2 and O2 Atmospheric Abundances and Tree Population due to Human Population

A Pedagogical Model of CO2 and O2 Atmospheric Abundances and Tree Population due to Human Population

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Mckayla Benner

Department of Physics, Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma 73008, USA

Abstract: 

A pedagogical model of the effects of human population on the global tree population and the atmospheric abundances of carbon dioxide and oxygen is provided, which, though too simple to be precise, offers meaningful insights with the virtue of being solvable by analytical means using only elementary calculus.