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When I was born in 1972, the global population was roughly half of what it is now. It was like living in a world after Thanatos snapped his fingers... I'm not s
by russellbeattie 6y ago
When I was born in 1972, the global population was roughly half of what it is now. It was like living in a world after Thanatos snapped his fingers... I'm not sure how they were able to survive.
In [another 50] years the population will double again, and everyone then will look back at today and be amazed there were so few people. They'll make a movie where there's "only" 7.8 billion people left and it'll be a blockbuster.
(Assuming there's still a functioning democracy then.)
* Edited. See below.
- sumedh 6y ago> In 30 years the population will double again How would it double if the population growth rate has been falling down for decades?
- russellbeattie 6y agoActually, yeah, it looks to be about 60 years if things don't change... My bad. I misread a chart on Wikipedia earlier, just used this instead: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/900 https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/9...
- jessaustin 6y agoIf you'd like to wager that the population will be > 15B in 2050, you will find lots of people eager to take the other side of that bet.