Defusing the Population Bomb
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Hey guys, Joe here. I’ve been thinking... if you sang happy birthday to every person who will be born today, you’d be singing for nearly six and a half weeks without stopping. That’s adding 386,000 more birthday cakes and humans, every day. It’s estimated that 1 in 15 humans ever born is alive right now. When I was growing up there were only 5 billion of us, but now Earth is home to 7.6 billion people. And some folks are worried what will happen if things continue at this rate. Space isn’t the problem. If we all lived as densely as people in Manhattan, every human could fit inside Norway, with a fjord or two to spare. But our species’ true footprint is much, MUCH larger. For many, today’s climate and ecological imbalances are proof there’s simply too many people on this pl...
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Hey guys, Joe here. I’ve been thinking... if you sang happy birthday to every person who will be born today, you’d be singing for nearly six and a half weeks without stopping. That’s adding 386,000 more birthday cakes and humans, every day. It’s estimated that 1 in 15 humans ever born is alive right now. When I was growing up there were only 5 billion of us, but now Earth is home to 7.6 billion people. And some folks are worried what will happen if things continue at this rate. Space isn’t the problem. If we all lived as densely as people in Manhattan, every human could fit inside Norway, with a fjord or two to spare. But our species’ true footprint is much, MUCH larger. For many, today’s climate and ecological imbalances are proof there’s simply too many people on this pl...
