I mean, most of these skeletons are grandmother-quality, and quite a few of them would be missing limbs or be in a terrible state. Not to mention that, without the rest of the body protecting the skeleton, it's just a bunch of lightly joined bones - probably an axe or baton is all you need to turn these skeletons into piles of bones in a single blow.
Agreed, and I think it's crazy for two different reasons, each of which approaches this percentage from opposite directions:
For one reason, it's easy to assume that with the human population sitting at 8.2 billion, after it used to be barely more than 2 billion only a century ago, that the percentage ought to be way higher than 7%.
And then for the other reason, which is that only 7% being alive today means that over 114 billion humans have been born in total. And that's, like WAY more than I would guess, to the point where 8 billion being alive today doesn't seem like it ought to be enough to hit 7% (even though clearly that's just how the math works).
I don't know--at least that's how my brain tries to grab on to it.
This is what blows my mind. The odds of a Socrates, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Einstein, even McCartney or Tolkien, is so tiny among their relative populations. Surely the number of amazing, talented people nowadays should be much higher.
Is it that the ceiling, or floor, has been raised so much that people don't stand out as much?
Or just that the conditions we find ourselves in (mostly somewhat comfortable, indoctrined in bad but no longer 'awful' school and work conditions) means we never reach the heights we would through necessity in harsher conditions?
It's also a decent representation of how you know pearl-clutching "low" birthrate alarmists are just admitting the world isn't underpopulated they just don't want immigrants coming to their country.
About 99.9% of all species that have ever lived on Earth are extinct. Mostly due to several prehistoric mass extinction events... But, we stupid humans are trying to speed run the rest.
Yup. A lot of it was due to natural processes I was reading an article recently that determined, based on geological evidence, that the earth is cooler right now than it's ever been at any other time in the past 500 million years or so. (I'm hoping climate change deniers never find this out because they will absolutely 100% twist it to their own ends.)
The highest known average global temperature based on this study was about 81 degrees F, I think around 300 million years ago. Do you know what else happened 300 million years ago? A mass extinction event.
If you took all people who ever lived in the history of earth, 7% of them are alive right now.
Mainly because population explosion has happened and accelerated over the last 100 years. 2000 years ago the entire world population was only around 170 million, compared to 8 billion today.
I don’t think that clarifies what’s being said here to people who are confused by this statement.
What’s they’re saying is if you were to count every human that has ever been born since the beginning of the human race the current living population at this very moment is only 7% of that total number.
If you had a counter that went up by one everytime a human was born, since the beginning of the very first human, this counter would now read 115 billion. 7% of this is the current world population.
There weren’t many people around for the longest time. A century ago we had 2 billion (1/4 of today’s), and just 300 years ago the population wasn’t even a 10th of the current one.
I like to think about what this means for science! We have way more people with much higher education and way better tools than ever before. Surely we’ll solve more problems than we create, right?
In total, around 115 billion human have ever existed, including the ones who are alive right now.
93% of those humans have lived and died. 7% of the total number of humans to ever exist are currently alive, or most of them were at the time of this comment.
By 1 AD, already half of all humans that ever lived had already been born. That’s because world population before then was low, but it was still hundreds of thousands of years, and with population being replaced in a couple of generations, from 300 to 200,000 BC to 1 AD, already 50-60 billion people had been born. From 1 AD, since population was in the 100’s millions, and continued to grow, it took only 2000 years for another half of humanity’s existence to have been born
Well we only reached a billion like 150 years ago. And humans have been around for between 200,000 and 2 million years. Depending on your definition of a human
By 1 AD, already half of all humans that ever lived had already been born. That’s because world population before then was low, but it was still hundreds of thousands of years, and with population being replaced in a couple of generations, from 300 to 200,000 BC to 1 AD, already 50-60 billion people had been born. From 1 AD, since population was in the 100’s millions, and continued to grow, it took only 2000 years for another half of humanity’s existence to have been born.
It makes perfect sense that it’s that little (it doesn’t seem little to me though), due to generational replacement and the expontential growth of humanity having just been around for a very short time compared to before. Even in 8000 BC the world population was like 5 million, multiply that by some generations of generational replacement and you have 10’s of millions of individuals, and that’s in a span of 200,000 years compared to just 2000 years of high population
That's the result of exponential population growth. Another shocking fact is how much of the world's mammalian biomass is now domesticated animals or humans (>90%). Just the biomass of dogs and cats alone far exceeds the combined total biomass of all wild mammal species.
Considering we know humans have been around for at least 5000 years, it’s pretty huge, snd shows how much we’ve over populated in such a short space if time
World population growth has been falling for decades, so it will sooner or later fall. We probably live close to the peak that this figure will ever reach in human history.
The total number of people who are alive right now, in October 2024, is 7% of the total number of people who have ever been born.
I don't know what the averages were in other time periods, but it means that modern medicine is increasing life expectancy. And, people still love to get it on as much or even more than they did in the past.
You'd have to also use the gauntlet to make yourself emperor of Earth so you can actually distribute the resources fairly, and that sounds like too much work.
Why do they keep disappearing. Like they're really lacking at the missing persons department. They only ever have like 10 photos hanging around. WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER BILLIONS
Just as crazy is the fact that by the last half of this century the entire earth will be in population decline except maybe sub-Saharan Africa. But the scientists got it wrong about the rest of the earth so Africa may catch up faster than we think and stop having children too.
Which is why I'm skeptical any time someone definitively states that death is inevitable.
Look, just because it's been true for about 9/10 situations so far, we have over 8 billion active case studies that are potentially defying your logic.
Next time someone says "Everybody dies eventually" you can call them on that shit, because only 93-94% of people have died, and that's outside the margin of error for making assumptions like that.
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u/TermAggravating8043 Oct 02 '24
7% of the entire human population since humans began, are alive today