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Population of the UK and Ireland 1900: 40m Population of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh 1900: 295m Population of the UK and Ireland 2019: 68m (+70%) Population

• garmaine 7y ago
  That's due to agriculture and lack of synthetic fertilizer, not antibiotics.
  • Richard_East 7y ago
    https://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/finalwebsite/solutions/phosphorus.html https://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/finalwebsite/solutions/... "Earth's phosphorus is being depleted at an alarming rate. At current consumption levels, we will run out of known phosphorus reserves in around 80 years, but consumption will not stay at current levels. Nearly 90% of phosphorus is used in the global food supply chain, most of it in crop fertilizers. If no action is taken to quell fertilizer use, demand is likely to increase exponentially."
    • petre 7y ago
      It's not like it leaves the atmosphere and gets blown into space like Helium. I'm sure it collects in bones, plants, gets washed into the sea and it's generally just spread around.
• senorjazz 7y ago
  Average age would be interesting. I imagine a lot lower in 1900