When I was a child sixty years ago at the age of ten I first learned of China and it's over population problem and their having to limit childbirths to one child per family because their land mass could no longer support it's population growth.
We have tripled the earths population since then and expect to quadruple the earths population by 2050.
This after the earths total human population being less than one half of one billion people for millions of years and less than half of that (one quarter of one billion people) for millions of years before that.
Think of populating the United States to forty times what it is today..
Then when they tell you that we could fit the entire worlds population today into the state of Texas..
Ask them how much space it would take to feed and clothe and shelter and dispose of the waste from that many people..
Not to mention living conditions..
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2023.html
WORLD POPULATION
Year | Population | Annual Growth Rate (%) | Annual Population Change |
---|---|---|---|
1950 | 2,557,628,654 | 1.459 | 37,311,223 |
1951 | 2,594,939,877 | 1.612 | 41,832,429 |
1952 | 2,636,772,306 | 1.717 | 45,281,083 |
1953 | 2,682,053,389 | 1.796 | 48,174,715 |
1954 | 2,730,228,104 | 1.900 | 51,870,839 |
1955 | 2,782,098,943 | 1.912 | 53,200,730 |
1956 | 2,835,299,673 | 1.977 | 56,050,044 |
1957 | 2,891,349,717 | 1.964 | 56,787,531 |
1958 | 2,948,137,248 | 1.783 | 52,579,345 |
1959 | 3,000,716,593 | 1.409 | 42,284,915 |
1960 | 3,043,001,508 | 1.346 | 40,965,421 |
1961 | 3,083,966,929 | 1.820 | 56,126,288 |
1962 | 3,140,093,217 | 2.221 | 69,734,665 |
1963 | 3,209,827,882 | 2.224 | 71,373,424 |
1964 | 3,281,201,306 | 2.110 | 69,224,487 |
1965 | 3,350,425,793 | 2.097 | 70,252,130 |
1966 | 3,420,677,923 | 2.036 | 69,655,792 |
1967 | 3,490,333,715 | 2.062 | 71,980,107 |
1968 | 3,562,313,822 | 2.101 | 74,845,228 |
1969 | 3,637,159,050 | 2.077 | 75,538,692 |
1970 | 3,712,697,742 | 2.091 | 77,629,206 |
1971 | 3,790,326,948 | 2.011 | 76,241,705 |
1972 | 3,866,568,653 | 1.953 | 75,527,789 |
1973 | 3,942,096,442 | 1.890 | 74,512,371 |
1974 | 4,016,608,813 | 1.804 | 72,474,420 |
1975 | 4,089,083,233 | 1.739 | 71,101,777 |
1976 | 4,160,185,010 | 1.728 | 71,899,568 |
1977 | 4,232,084,578 | 1.702 | 72,021,175 |
1978 | 4,304,105,753 | 1.740 | 74,908,189 |
1979 | 4,379,013,942 | 1.652 | 72,348,793 |
1980 | 4,451,362,735 | 1.866 | 83,047,390 |
1981 | 4,534,410,125 | 1.768 | 80,156,436 |
1982 | 4,614,566,561 | 1.759 | 81,170,182 |
1983 | 4,695,736,743 | 1.679 | 78,832,648 |
1984 | 4,774,569,391 | 1.715 | 81,893,308 |
1985 | 4,856,462,699 | 1.732 | 84,108,533 |
1986 | 4,940,571,232 | 1.753 | 86,629,260 |
1987 | 5,027,200,492 | 1.738 | 87,356,675 |
1988 | 5,114,557,167 | 1.699 | 86,882,943 |
1989 | 5,201,440,110 | 1.683 | 87,515,824 |
1990 | 5,288,955,934 | 1.562 | 82,629,988 |
1991 | 5,371,585,922 | 1.574 | 84,550,356 |
1992 | 5,456,136,278 | 1.505 | 82,132,038 |
1993 | 5,538,268,316 | 1.452 | 80,413,816 |
1994 | 5,618,682,132 | 1.433 | 80,520,853 |
1995 | 5,699,202,985 | 1.408 | 80,237,608 |
1996 | 5,779,440,593 | 1.359 | 78,531,950 |
1997 | 5,857,972,543 | 1.319 | 77,240,705 |
1998 | 5,935,213,248 | 1.295 | 76,861,674 |
1999 | 6,012,074,922 | 1.272 | 76,496,461 |
2000 | 6,088,571,383 | 1.259 | 76,647,864 |
2001 | 6,165,219,247 | 1.246 | 76,797,101 |
2002 | 6,242,016,348 | 1.227 | 76,574,608 |
2003 | 6,318,590,956 | 1.220 | 77,108,553 |
2004 | 6,395,699,509 | 1.209 | 77,345,223 |
2005 | 6,473,044,732 | 1.208 | 78,218,802 |
2006 | 6,551,263,534 | 1.201 | 78,650,225 |
2007 | 6,629,913,759 | 1.194 | 79,136,021 |
2008 | 6,709,049,780 | 1.180 | 79,164,614 |
2009 | 6,788,214,394 | 1.151 | 78,117,964 |
2010 | 6,866,332,358 | 1.132 | 77,723,225 |
2011 | 6,944,055,583 | 1.127 | 78,293,700 |
2012 | 7,022,349,283 | 1.120 | 78,678,612 |
2013 | 7,101,027,895 | 1.094 | 77,694,998 |
2014 | 7,178,722,893 | 1.083 | 77,767,118 |
2015 | 7,256,490,011 | 1.079 | 78,281,603 |
2016 | 7,334,771,614 | 1.064 | 78,007,357 |
2017 | 7,412,778,971 | 1.047 | 77,648,669 |
2018 | 7,490,427,640 | 1.028 | 76,975,337 |
2019 | 7,567,402,977 | 1.004 | 75,999,146 |
2020 | 7,643,402,123 | 0.979 | 74,854,707 |
2021 | 7,718,256,830 | 0.956 | 73,764,487 |
2022 | 7,792,021,317 | 0.933 | 72,704,053 |
2023 | 7,864,725,370 | 0.910 | 71,546,184 |
2024 | 7,936,271,554 | 0.886 | 70,308,999 |
2025 | 8,006,580,553 | 0.863 | 69,135,447 |
2026 | 8,075,716,000 | 0.842 | 68,013,466 |
2027 | 8,143,729,466 | 0.821 | 66,830,429 |
2028 | 8,210,559,895 | 0.799 | 65,630,624 |
2029 | 8,276,190,519 | 0.778 | 64,416,071 |
2030 | 8,340,606,590 | 0.759 | 63,273,753 |
2031 | 8,403,880,343 | 0.740 | 62,213,679 |
2032 | 8,466,094,022 | 0.722 | 61,152,183 |
2033 | 8,527,246,205 | 0.705 | 60,078,949 |
2034 | 8,587,325,154 | 0.687 | 58,979,550 |
2035 | 8,646,304,704 | 0.670 | 57,934,570 |
2036 | 8,704,239,274 | 0.654 | 56,949,923 |
2037 | 8,761,189,197 | 0.639 | 55,949,588 |
2038 | 8,817,138,785 | 0.623 | 54,927,752 |
2039 | 8,872,066,537 | 0.607 | 53,883,142 |
2040 | 8,925,949,679 | 0.592 | 52,873,266 |
2041 | 8,978,822,945 | 0.578 | 51,900,421 |
2042 | 9,030,723,366 | 0.564 | 50,893,636 |
2043 | 9,081,617,002 | 0.549 | 49,845,324 |
2044 | 9,131,462,326 | 0.534 | 48,762,888 |
2045 | 9,180,225,214 | 0.520 | 47,709,793 |
2046 | 9,227,935,007 | 0.506 | 46,681,804 |
2047 | 9,274,616,811 | 0.492 | 45,616,173 |
2048 | 9,320,232,984 | 0.478 | 44,517,198 |
2049 | 9,364,750,182 | 0.463 | 43,391,120 |
2050 | 9,408,141,302 |