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packman

(16,296 posts) Mon Feb 5, 2018, 11:47 AM Feb 2018

200k yrs.1billion people/200 yrs. to reach 7 billion

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If you consider yourself on the more impatient side of things, we suggest starting at 1:50 which will zoom you to 400 AD – the time of India’s Golden Age. Alternatively, go to 3:25 to witness the Bubonic Plague’s rare negative impact on population growth, as well as the ensuing age of European exploration.

More of various impacts on pop. growth:
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/animation-population-growth-history/

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200k yrs.1billion people/200 yrs. to reach 7 billion (Original Post) packman Feb 2018 OP

It Is Impossible For Population To Continue To Grow. Earth Cannot Handle It. TheMastersNemesis Feb 2018 #1

TheMastersNemesis

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1. It Is Impossible For Population To Continue To Grow. Earth Cannot Handle It.

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Mon Feb 5, 2018, 11:55 AM

Feb 2018

We are seeing the Malthusian scenario unfold right now in many parts of the world. Unrest, wars, famine, starvation, pestilence et al exist in many parts of the planet in all actuality.

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