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There are more humans alive today than there has ever been if you added up all the humans who have died over the thousands of years we have walked the earth

 

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If we're saying alive today, at what point are we adding them up to?

 

Yesterday?

 

If so, probably not true

If you knew exactly the number of humans alive right now then it is greater than the total number of all humans that have ever died

 

Factamundo my friend

If you knew exactly the number of humans alive right now then it is greater than the total number of all humans that have ever died

 

Factamundo my friend

 

 

This means that we are nowhere near close to having more alive than dead. In fact, there are 15 dead people for every person living. We surpassed seven billion dead way back between 8000BC and AD1.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16870579

This means that we are nowhere near close to having more alive than dead. In fact, there are 15 dead people for every person living. We surpassed seven billion dead way back between 8000BC and AD1.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16870579

Thats better, now Fact me till I fart

Interesting read

 

Makes sense

 

I always thought it must be right as to be right every human alive would only have had to had on average 2+ children grow up and reproduce for it to be true which I didn't think was far fetched

 

And the fact that a few generations are alive today too

 

However if 1b were alive 200 yrars a go it must be shite

When was the First human born?

Interesting read

 

Makes sense

 

I always thought it must be right as to be right every human alive would only have had to had on average 2+ children grow up and reproduce for it to be true which I didn't think was far fetched

 

And the fact that a few generations are alive today too

 

However if 1b were alive 200 yrars a go it must be shite

 

 

Interesting question for you

 

 

What has "coincided" with the rocketing population?

Interesting question for you

 

 

What has "coincided" with the rocketing population?

 

The discovery of Oil, without Oil the last 100 years would have been unbelievably different

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The discovery of Oil

 

 

Yep, increasing oil production; almost completely aligned

The first world war offically ended on 3rd october 2010.

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deane how much for a bag of that?

The first world war offically ended on 3rd october 2010.

Yep summat to so with paying off the last of the crippling war debt from the treaty of Versailles, this is what had a huge influence in causing ww2

The Second world war is still ongoing, as there has been no formal treaty between Russia and China? (iirc) over some daft little islands...

 

that said they're probably forgotten themselves

The Korean War too is still ongoing

Interesting question for you

 

 

What has "coincided" with the rocketing population?

And agriculture!

Interesting question for you

 

 

What has "coincided" with the rocketing population?

A rise in Islamic Fundamentalism?

And agriculture!

 

 

driven by?

PopulationAndOil.png

It's a bit chicken and egg though that graph BD I suppose

 

If the global population was smaller then there would be less demand for oil

 

I wonder what that graph would look like for wheat production etc

It's a bit chicken and egg though that graph BD I suppose

 

If the global population was smaller then there would be less demand for oil

 

I wonder what that graph would look like for wheat production etc

 

 

I know what you mean.

 

The thrust is that the world population growth was enabled by the incrteased oil production; places became sustainable to develop/farm  with energy that otherwise wouldn't have.

 

There are some good reads

I know what you mean.

 

The thrust is that the world population growth was enabled by the incrteased oil production; places became sustainable to develop/farm  with energy that otherwise wouldn't have.

 

There are some good reads

 

Oil has without doubt been the driver of the last 100 years, pretty much everything can be traced back to Oil and its increased production.

I watched a Good doc about it ages ago, its crazy how much of an influence it has been.

What we going to do when it all runs out??

Necessity is the mother of invention or...

 

scenario B. - We (or rather, they) will be fucked.

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What we going to do when it all runs out??

 

Easily extractable oil is slowly running out however there are huge deposits of shale Oil etc

I wouldnt worry about it for another 150 years

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