Explosion

Why Population growth even before the explosion?

August 21, 2022 August 15, 2022

Throughout history, although no other species on Earth has experienced such long term overall population growth, even before the recent population explosion, the human population kept slowly growing.

Yes, we recently had an unprecedented population explosion, driven by is hidden by by the near elimination of previously tragic infant mortality, but against the background of long term growth, many of us never didn’t even realise their was an explosion.

But what drove population growth even before the explosion? What will now happen as the explosion ends?

China Population Surprise: Peak Population in 2022.

December 19, 2021 December 19, 2021

I read a story on population in China that I found surprising in three ways. Synopsis. Peak China: The Population of China Has Already Peaked.

Population Explosion: What happened to get to 8 Billion people?

March 9, 2021 September 10, 2022

Humanity has just experienced a population explosion. Whether you believe we are overpopulated or not, the facts are that we have just had a population explosion.

Over two centuries of population peaking at 50x higher than the long term population growth, and peaking at 100x higher during the baby boom.

Yet the explosion occurred with women having less babies than ever before, even during the baby boom, and is ending all by itself.

So what caused the boom, why a population explosion when birth rates are falling? Will our population grow until we are living life like battery hens?

Paradox Resolved: Educating women didn’t end the Population Explosion.

March 6, 2021 August 23, 2023

Surprisingly, humanity is at ‘peak child‘ and looks to be heading to population stability and perhaps even ‘leaving peak population‘ and correcting to a lower population.

We still have an overpopulated planet, following the population explosion, but the explosion is ending, due to ‘births’ per woman falling from over 6 prior to 1900, and to around 2.3 in 2021.

There is much confusion over why birth-rates are falling, with “education of women” often mistakenly given as an explanation, but no, the Taliban are not onto something, and rather than this or other common coincidence theories, it seems far more likely people are motivated to have the number of children that are appropriate for the situation.

Peak Child: When, and what does it mean?

May 25, 2019 October 28, 2022

Globally, the when is now. Although locally, experiences differ by location.

Data now clearly confirms that globally, the world has returned to ‘peak child’, a precursor to a likely return to peak population, and the end of three centuries of a population explosion.

Return to peak child means we could either return to the gradual growth levels of prior to the industrial revolution, or become a mature species, and exist in balance with nature and other living things. Perhaps even stop displacing other species?