The natural balance of human population if unassisted by today’s modern world of countless safety nets, mass agriculture, modern medicine, and social civility, would be stunning fraction of what it is today. Today’s world population is nearly 7.5 billion. 100 years ago it was just 1.6 billion. 100 years before that, 1 billion. 2,000 years ago, 200 million. 2000 BC, 27 million. The world population graph shown above might trigger a sense of alarm. And in my opinion it should. I pretty much fully understand how and why the world population has exploded upwards. However the sudden tremendous growth
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