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Earth's human population recently reached 8 billion people.
Here's where they live.
Data visualization by Pietro Violo https://pietroviolo.com/
I’m seeing some folks concerned about “overpopulation.”
As I outlined in this talk from a decade ago, we shouldn’t focus on the total number of people on Earth, but rather how they consume, distribute & waste resources (energy, water, food, etc).
The population projections included here were based on Hans Rosling’s work & have shifted a bit since this was recorded, but the arguments still hold. /2
@Sheril I was expecting you to pivot from The Population Bomb to Borlaug, and so the turn to women and family planning confused me for a moment...in precisely the same way that Malthus and Erlich also failed to see your point.
I'd always assumed Malthus-et-al's primary failure was not anticipating technological advance, not the much more fundamental failure to understand basic human nature.
Thank you.
@UncivilServant @Sheril I second. Any women with access to effective birth control immediately starts regulating her fertility, especially if she already has children