With the help of better medicine and better agriculture, people are living longer, and as babies are being born, they grow up and have babies of their own. In the span of 200 years the world population grew by 6 billion people, absolutely astounding.
From YouTube description:
It was just over two centuries ago that the global population was 1 billion — in 1804. But better medicine and improved agriculture resulted in higher life expectancy for children, dramatically increasing the world population, especially in the West.
As higher standards of living and better health care are reaching more parts of the world, the rates of fertility — and population growth — have started to slow down, though the population will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.
U.N. forecasts suggest the world population could hit a peak of 10.1 billion by 2100 before beginning to decline. But exact numbers are hard to come by — just small variations in fertility rates could mean a population of 15 billion by the end of the century.
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Nice little educational video on how the human species might as well be a cancer than will one day kill our beloved mother Earth. Thankfully, we have our space program that, through years of searching and studying the vast regions beyond our own planet, will one day find another livable planet that we can begin to take over and ravish....I mean...settle and explore. Thank God we still have the one resource that will one day save all of mankind.....
...what? The space program has been shut down and de-funded? "Sigh" There goes the future planet.
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