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dpibel

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1. Wow! Steady population for 920 years.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 08:54 PM

Nov 2022

"It is expected to reach a peak of 10.4bn in the 2080s and it will remain around that mark until the end of millenium."

(Just amusing myself with the world of journalism without copy editors.)

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The 8 countries driving world population growth from 8bn to 9.7bn - and China's not one of them [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2022 OP

Wow! Steady population for 920 years. dpibel Nov 2022 #1

Global warming aside, PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2022 #2

That's a pretty hefty aside dpibel Nov 2022 #3

I don't see how there can not be massive environmental degradation, Crunchy Frog Nov 2022 #4

There will be a population crash. roamer65 Nov 2022 #5

Human population reached a billion in about 1820. It took 300,000 years. Ron Green Nov 2022 #6

I'm hardly an expert, but it seems as if 1 billion people PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2022 #9

We Win! jeffreyi Nov 2022 #7

If we don't fix this Mother Nature will, and it won't be pretty. hunter Nov 2022 #8

That sounds reasonable. Therefore, we must have more forced births. And orgies. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2022 #10

Exactly, humans don't seem hard wired to fix problems. Irish_Dem Nov 2022 #11