Population
Blogs can be like soapboxes. From time to time, I have banged on about population growth on this tiny spinning sphere in the vastness of this infinite universe. In the past, this topic weirdly riled my main trolls as though it was not a matter I had any authority to comment upon. Anyway, I am back to the subject this very evening - population growth. It was in 1804 that Earth's population reached one billion for the first time. Then 123 years passed by before, in 1927, the population reached two billion. However it only took 33 more years to reach three billion which tally came about in 1960. Onward to four billion and that happened just fourteen years later - in 1974. You can see that the pace of population growth was really picking up. We reached five billion in 1987 We reached six billion in 1999 We reached seven billion in 2012 We reached eight billion this very year - 2024. A decade ago, academic forecasters predicted that we would reach nine billion in 2048 but it i...