Long time visitors to "Yorkshire Pudding" may recall that last year I drew special attention to our planet's relentless population growth. It was on February 4th of 2020 that I noted the world's population was 7,762,009,632 and increasing day by day.
Since then we have all been cowering in the shadow of COVID19. Death stalks us like an escaped beast, waiting to take us in moments of weakness. Surely with what COVID has done, the planet's population must have been in freefall but that is far from the truth. Today, almost fourteen months after my initial blogpost, Earth's population is 7,854, 418, t43
In fourteen months our population has risen by 92 million. Only 2,755,000 have died from coronavirus in that same period of time. 92 million extra earthlings. That's a much bigger number of people than the current population of Great Britain, bigger than Germany or Turkey and more than the Democratic Republic of Congo, bigger than the populations of California, Texas and Florida put together. It makes you think.
I find this rampant growth extremely concerning. In the last year I have seen miles of TV footage connected with this damned pandemic and I have read thousands of words about it. I don't know about you but in the main media outlets I have seen and read almost nothing about population growth in the past year.
Every extra human being puts extra strain on this planet's limited resources. All 92million need to eat and keep warm when it is cold. I am not offering any solutions - just highlighting the issue.
Surely, if all this attention, this money, this sacrifice, this worry is being devoted to COVID and its effects we should be saving some of that stuff up for population growth. If it goes on this way we will implode as even Prince Philip recognised.
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