A visualization of human population growth over the last 2000 years. 📽: American Museum of Natural History

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And if you put all 8 billion of us - tightly packed - into a sphere, the diameter of said sphere would only be approximately 1km.

It really does look like cancer metastasizing all over the world. Dormant for centuries, but suddenly multiplying madly. Totally out of control and about to smother its host to death.

got to cook with something, less trees, more farmland waste, pollution, degraded landfills, less clean water, hotter temperatures, crapper attitudes, kill the neighbor who differs-end #UN veto #ClimateActionNow #Refugees #debt #EU #CONgress #POTUS #SCOTUS

Perhaps is it a Gaussian function, perhaps it's not the first one at all, perhaps we still know really little about mankind's past.

Am intentionally deprived life! Strong apathy!

Africa look awfully small.

Can anyone tell me the actual risk to population collapse and how it would impact me or my kids directly?

Very cool.