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https://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf
"The world population when Jesus was born was roughly 150 million . . . it now stands at 8 Billion" (Nov 2022)
Link to a pdf of a book from back in 1972 that did not come to my attention at the time: The Limits of Growth.
Just gonna leave the link for anyone who happens upon it and might also be interested. I do not know if the book has any particular political leanings, but it isn't long and seems worth reading.
A colleague (while he was in grad school) who is a genetisist and later taught at Yale (maybe as an adjunct), who describes himself as a "nomad in cyberspace" shared the link saying:
"The world population when Jesus was born was roughly 150 million and when my grandfather was born was about 1.5 billion and it doubled by the time I was born and now stands at 8 billion! But there is also a system that has developed particularly since the industrial revolution where rampant consumption has depleted non-renewable resources and damaged earth. The main destructive aspects all caused by humans include: climate change, habitat destruction, pollution (more plastics than fish in the oceans), overexploitation, militarism/wars, and invasive species. This year 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication in 1972 of a prophetic book called "The Limits of Growth" which lays out scenarios of what is happening today. You can read the book here: "
from "A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home, Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History, Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University Occupied Palestine" (His is a Palestinian Christian Family. He also initially financed the museum and institute which has become a vital part of Bethlehem University.)
Graph attributed to: Max Roser - https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth
World population (green shaded area) and world population growth rate (red line) for the period: 1700 - 2100 based on data from the UN Population Division, 2019 revision
"The world population when Jesus was born was roughly 150 million . . . it now stands at 8 Billion" (Nov 2022)
Link to a pdf of a book from back in 1972 that did not come to my attention at the time: The Limits of Growth.
Just gonna leave the link for anyone who happens upon it and might also be interested. I do not know if the book has any particular political leanings, but it isn't long and seems worth reading.
A colleague (while he was in grad school) who is a genetisist and later taught at Yale (maybe as an adjunct), who describes himself as a "nomad in cyberspace" shared the link saying:
"The world population when Jesus was born was roughly 150 million and when my grandfather was born was about 1.5 billion and it doubled by the time I was born and now stands at 8 billion! But there is also a system that has developed particularly since the industrial revolution where rampant consumption has depleted non-renewable resources and damaged earth. The main destructive aspects all caused by humans include: climate change, habitat destruction, pollution (more plastics than fish in the oceans), overexploitation, militarism/wars, and invasive species. This year 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication in 1972 of a prophetic book called "The Limits of Growth" which lays out scenarios of what is happening today. You can read the book here: "
from "A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home, Professor, Founder, and (volunteer) Director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History, Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University Occupied Palestine" (His is a Palestinian Christian Family. He also initially financed the museum and institute which has become a vital part of Bethlehem University.)
Graph attributed to: Max Roser - https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth
World population (green shaded area) and world population growth rate (red line) for the period: 1700 - 2100 based on data from the UN Population Division, 2019 revision
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If you say so, Lt Col Charlie Brown!
I truly have no idea how to understand what the graph is dipicting . . .
I truly have no idea how to understand what the graph is dipicting . . .
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