Human Population Through Time [video]

[James]

It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average. When will our global population peak? And how can we minimize our impact on Earth’s resources, even as we approach 11 billion?


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Shows how successful humans have been in recent years, anyway.

[arista]

Yes James
this is why WW3 is needed soon.

As we will run out of food etc,

[user104658]

Ahh, the story of how the world ends.

[Kizzy]

Eugenics... That's how the west will control numbers.

[Tozzie]

Yes James
this is why WW3 is needed soon.

As we will run out of food etc,

I hope it waits until I'm dead and buried, I don't wanna go through a war, especially if it were nuclear :nono:

[user104658]

I hope it waits until I'm dead and buried, I don't wanna go through a war, especially if it were nuclear :nono:Well if it's any consolation you wouldn't really go "through" a Nuclear war... I mean... There is no other side. Its pretty much a game over scenario.

As for non-nuclear, if that video is accurate then it wouldn't even help; if you look at the early 20th century, the two world wars didn't cause any meaningful drop at all in population and actually triggered a post-war population boom. :worry: there's no stopping us, we're just going to keep multiplying until there's nothing left.

Maybe a good virus would do it? But the balancing act required makes that unlikely. Viruses with high mortality rates (like ebola) are too dramatic and so don't spread fast enough and are self limiting. Viruses that do manage to spread globally are fairly low-key and have very low mortality rates and so don't change population growth.

What we really need is a virus that doesn't kill... But spreads easily, and makes a large percentage of people infertile. That could work.