If you had to summarize the history of the world's population, it would go something like this: normal – normal – normal – normal – – sweet lord god, what happened? From the year 0 to the year 1700, it's estimated that the world's population only increased from 190 million people to 600 million. From 1700 to today, it's gone from 600 million to nearly 8 billion. Look at that line and you can understand why so many people panicked about overpopulation... ...until about 5 minutes ago. When we star
ted panicking about underpopulation... ...because this is what the world's population growth has looked like since 1950. And this is what it's projected to look like through the end of this century.
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