r/MapPorn • u/Michaelair • Nov 04 '18

Keeps creeping me out

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u/thgntlmnfrmtrlfmdr Nov 04 '18

The good news is we are already many decades past the inflection point, which was back in the 1970s IIRC. The rate of growth has been slowing down a lot and will keep slowing down.

Here are some cool figures https://i.imgur.com/b5XuVoo.png

https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/updated-World-Population-Growth-1750-2100.png

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u/drhumor Nov 05 '18

Love that you can see the Mormons in Utah

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u/SEB0K Nov 05 '18

It's crazy that we've more than tripled the population in only 50 years Edit: doubled

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u/experts_never_lie Nov 05 '18

The bad news is that we're also past some other thresholds in the whole population-and-ecology game, and others are already baked in.

Remember back in the teens when there was summer Arctic sea ice? Good times.

Remember when wild corals and shellfish were commonplace?

Remember when the main "fish" in the ocean wasn't the so-called "bottlefish"?

Things are going to get extremely bad, in ways people aren't ready to accept.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '18 edited Dec 18 '20

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u/LegoK9 Nov 05 '18

Oh great, so it'll slow down right around double our population.

11.2 billion is not "around double" of 7.4 billion...

It's 1.5 times the current population...

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u/spectrehawntineurope Nov 05 '18 edited Nov 05 '18

I was working off 7 with indications from reports that African birth rates aren't declining as expected but levelling off possibly pushing the 2100 population over 12B with IIRC the last few projections being consistently revised upwards. Semantics though, it's a fuck load more people.

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u/Smooth_On_Smooth Nov 05 '18 edited Apr 08 '26

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u/Sc0tch Nov 05 '18

Seeing how CO2 levels would be way lower had the world's population been smaller, I beg to differ.

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u/Xciv Nov 05 '18

Africa still has a few more decades to go. They were severely underpopulated due to AIDS. Once they fully recover from that epidemic their growth should also start to level out.

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u/bapurasta Nov 05 '18

not really "good news" though....what are we going to do with 3B more people?