Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained
In a very short amount of time the human population exploded and is still growing very fast. Will this lead to the end of our civilization? Check out https://ourworldindata.org by Max Roser!...
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Never before in history, have there been so many people on Earth as right now.Our numbers have skyrocketed, from 1 billion in 1800, to 2.3 billion in 1940, 3.7 billion in 1970, and 7.4 billion in 2016.The world population increased fourfold in the last century, so what can we expect for the next century?And what does population growth mean for our future?Will there be mass-migration?Overcrowded slums and megacities covering continents?Diseases and pollution?Chaos and violence over energy, water, and food?And a human species focused only on sustaining itself?Will population growth destroy our way of life?Or is this prophecy just ungrounded panic?In the 1960s population growth reached an unprecedented rate.Which lead to apocalyptic prophecies.The poor would pro-create en...
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Never before in history, have there been so many people on Earth as right now.Our numbers have skyrocketed, from 1 billion in 1800, to 2.3 billion in 1940, 3.7 billion in 1970, and 7.4 billion in 2016.The world population increased fourfold in the last century, so what can we expect for the next century?And what does population growth mean for our future?Will there be mass-migration?Overcrowded slums and megacities covering continents?Diseases and pollution?Chaos and violence over energy, water, and food?And a human species focused only on sustaining itself?Will population growth destroy our way of life?Or is this prophecy just ungrounded panic?In the 1960s population growth reached an unprecedented rate.Which lead to apocalyptic prophecies.The poor would pro-create en...
