I plan to record snapshots of points in time where the epi/pandemic is up to at the those times. I will reference this data in updates. See the Q&A for why the data varies so much.
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A first reaction could be: “ok, the people who voted for Donald Trump clearly feel it is broken, but I am not sure they are
Back in 1986, the movie Highlander was released. It was actually sufficiently successful to inspire four sequels, plus spin offs and even a reboot. Something in the
There is an argument that we currently have more people on Earth than ideal, but even if you accept that we have an overpopulation problem,
It feels like the world is in the grip of a wave of xenophobia, and we just seem so far from a solution. From extremist
The reasons the growth age is over are: the unprecedented population growth has come to an end there are no more ‘new worlds’ further improvements
Even after the “peak child” the population on this planet could continue to grow for decades, as the “population pipeline” creates inertia and a situation analogous to how a super tanker can continue forward even after the engines have stopped, or even switched to reverse.
Population growth is the difference between the number of people who are born, and the number of people who die, and as there is a lifetime delay between those two events, at any one time the people being born are from a world separated by many generations from . People enter the population pipeline at birth and remain in the pipeline until they die, which on the current world average current world average of 73, which means deaths today reflect the global population of 73 years ago.