So on the 31st of October the world’s population reached a mighty 7 billion. How anyone could have predicted this number so accurately is beyond me but some say it could be out by as much as 56 million. The population of 7 billion is incredible and moreover by the fact that that the world’s population has doubled in the last 50 years. By going onto http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515 and typing in your birth day you can see what number you are in todays population and which number in the human race you are. It turn out im the 5,182,595,763rd person alive and the 80,184,924,112 to have lived on this planet. Just shows the vast expansion of the human race!
(National Geographic)
The video above shows how a typical human being looks like and certain traits but it shows also how ‘typical’ depends on what you are measuring it against. Be it the world or your own country the statistics vary dramatically. Right now the most typical human being is Chinese but will be overtaken by the Indians in 2030. To me it feels like the Chinese and Indians are vastly outnumbering Europe but perhaps this is a good thing?
(sustainablescale.org)
In my view there is a limited amount of people that a society or country can support. Even with imports of food and other necessities surely the infrastructure can only hold so many. In England and especially London I think we can see how close to this capacity we are already reaching. Just look how difficult it is getting on to the tube every morning which in my case turns into a wrestling match just trying to squeeze myself in to avoid waiting for the nect one. Traffic jams and waiting lines/queues seem to increase by the day so I actually feel rather happy that there is only 60ish million people in England and not more. If population increases like the chart shows above, get ready for an extremely crowded planet!
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