The Fizzling Explosion - English Webvideo
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for nearly all of human history, they haven't seen that many of us around the zero Earth's population is estimated to have bean 190 million. 1000 years later, it was probably around 250 million. Then the industrial revolution happened on human population went into overdrive. It took hundreds of thousands of years for humans to hit the one billion mark. In 1800. We added the next billion by 1928 in 1960 way hit, three billion in 1975. 4 billion. That sounds like a route to an overpopulation in park lips, right? Too many mid century demographers, futurists and science fiction writers. It's certainly predicted one. Extending the time line. They saw a nightmarish future ahead for humanity. Human civilisation constantly on the brink of starvation, desperately crowded under horrendous conditions. Draconian population control laws imposed worldwide, Stan Ford biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote in his bestselling 1968 book, The Population Bomb, in the 19 seventies. Hundreds of millions of people will starve to death because of overpopulation. Later editions modified the sentence to read in the 19 eighties, none of that ever came to pass the world. We live in now, despite approaching a population off nearly eight billion, looks almost nothing like the one Doom Sayers. By dissipating starting in the 19 century in Britain and reaching most of the world by the end of the 20th century, birth rates plummeted, mostly because of women's education and access to contraception, not Draconian compilation loss. In Valley societies, their women have opportunities outside the home. The average family size is small. In fact, it's below Ripley.