People think that there are too many people, it's undeniable that there is a lot of people but the earth can still handle a lot. Everyone says that the earths population is growing but, actually the population growth in the future will be very low or actually be negative. Already developed countries have aging and declining populations Italy, Russia, Japan. even lesser developed or developing nations have very low fertility rates of 1.4
Low fertility rates of 1.4 or lower and a median age in the 40's or lower. And I'm not talking just about Japan or South Korea or Italy or Russia... I'm talking about Cuba, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela
Antonio Maldonado you also forgot to mention Mexico hon. Everyone assumes that mexicans and latinos have so many children, but this is not the case. in fact its birth rates are now at the same level of the US, and by the end of the next century, they will be even lower
Delia D I know that lol, I'm Mexican. That about Mexicans having large families...Well that stereotype that was more true more like in the 60's, but now fertility rates are only a little more than 2 children per family. There are still big families, but nowhere near as much as what they used to be. Nowhere near as many families with Jesus, Paco, Maria, Jose, Agustin, and Gabriela and mom and dad...BTW I'm making up the names.
Antonio Maldonado Isn't Mexico City the most populous city on the planet? Your observations appear defensive, and nieve to the degrading effects human population has had on the quality of life on this planet. Don't base your qualitative values on what you see now. It is poor compared to just 50 years ago. In another 50, we will see people fighting for water.
@goodguys9 As explained at the beginning of the video, dots represent one million people and are placed in the middle of where those million people live. You'll see that the dots in Canada are concentrated along the U.S. border, where most people live, and the dots in Russia are concentrated in the cities.
@8DJUSTINCREDIBLE I'm 18 too, and the thought of having kids right now is terrifying. Before modern medicine, people had more kids because they had smaller chances of living to adulthood, but that's certainly changed in most parts of the world. My AP Human geography teacher showed our class this video, it scares me: It's so chilling how much the population of the world has sky-rocketed in only the last couple hundred years.
the UN seems to have the most credible projection data for populations and they keep revising it downwards, now it is: 8 billion on low estimate 10.5 on high for 2050. I don't think any one would expect population to double in 2009 "over the next fifty years", even on highest projected models. very curious to see where these guys got their data from. I do love the map :)
+Aidan Mullan If that was true there would be less than a million people on earth. I hate to say it but the higher the population is the more idiots there are.
There was a dot first on Edinburgh around 1250AD which could well be right but then a dot in Highland, Scotland?, the population of the Highlands is to this day around 232'000 people. I liked the video though it was quite unique with the sound effects, made it interesting and spooky
@DCfreak87 You are correct that all population estimates are just that--estimates based on projections. We cannot know exactly how many people are on earth. We can only use the data available and make the most educated assumptions.
@ianripken Actually, the guy said that dots will increase outward to show accurately the population on the edges. Also, ND has 2 freakin dots cuz the dots can also show the population of a big area by being placed in the middle of it.
@hop208 My view is himalayas will provide future fresh water for south asia for a long time as they have a LOT of water up there so no soon water crysis I suppose
Like I said before, to another commenter who said the same thing you did, I really wish I could be as optimistic as you about that. Unfortunately, I believe mankind is too deeply polluted with superstition, greed and ignorance for something like that to actually be thought of before it's too late.
@victormgv Education--especially for girls--is a huge influence on fertility rates, as you stated. In most cases, the better-educated women use contraception to limit their family size because they have knowledge of its existence, where to get it, and how to use it. These methods that you call inhumane (I assume modern contraception?) are the exact methods that educated women employ to reduce their fertility.
@JonaBay Those of us who support population stabilization do so in order to avoid a situation like the one you described. Most people don't want to live in a world where people are "dropping like flies" for lack of adequate food, shelter, and medicine. The purpose of population stabilization is to improve the quality of life for people. Population stabilization is the means we advocate for making life better for women, children, households, and societies.
@thedodger2x Large scale desalination plants and the amount of infrastructure needed to make the water available to the public would cost billions of dollars and the construction would need to start immediately. Not only that, but with the current technology to separate the salt and other impurities form the water isn't sustainable on that scale. All current large scale desalination plants (like in Dubai) run on massive amounts of oil. Indian oil consumption would go up dramatically.
@uncballer28 Most governments conduct a census every ten years or so. The Demographic and Health Surveys are used in many developing countries as well. We know roughly how many babies are born in each country each year. Many countries with rapidly growing populations have policies that encourage family planning, but can't afford to provide universal access to contraceptive services. Donor countries like the United States can help by funding voluntary family planning programs.
Okay, here are some details about the world population as of my knowledge cutoff in August 2023: In August 2023, the global population was estimated to be around 7.9 billion people. This represented a steady increase from previous years, with the population growing by about 1.1% annually in the years leading up to 2023. The countries with the largest populations were: 1. China - 1.41 billion 2. India - 1.38 billion 3. United States - 331 million 4. Indonesia - 273 million 5. Pakistan - 221 million Population growth rates varied significantly by region, with Africa and parts of Asia experiencing the fastest growth, while Europe and North America had slower growth or even population decline in some cases. The aging of populations in many developed countries was also an emerging trend, with higher proportions of elderly residents. This was driven by declining birth rates and increased life expectancy. Let me know if you need any other details about the world population as of that time period. I'd be happy to provide more information.
@meralodem This is simply incorrect. Donor countries do indeed bring their technical expertise to developing countries. They teach medical professionals how to insert long-acting methods of contraception; they educate nurses about life-saving medications to stop hemorrhaging after childbirth; they help non-profit workers in developing countries run public health campaigns; etc.
@DCfreak87 - They say 3 babies are born every second, the population is growing wildly, I don't think anyone knows how many people there are anymore, the more the population grows the harder to keep track of the total. Population is growing everywhere, who is counting the babies being born in remote areas that no one cares about, humans are procreating more than ever because we are more than ever, population growth is unavoidable, why worry, let it grow, we can't stop it!
There is little information regarding the population of the Americas during the period prior to the Western conquests. Most of the information available are conjectures.
Especially America. There were 100,000+ cities in America pre Columbian time. Mostly in the area that is now Mexico, Central America and Peru. But there were also at different times cities of less than 100,000 in other parts of America in pre Columbian times. In the areas I already mentioned but also what is now the USA, Colombia and other places.
@Mike0Powell Standing room isn't really the issue. We also need land to grow food and absorb our waste (including trees to absorb carbon emissions). We're not the only beings on this planet--wildlife needs a home as well. There are countless social and health issues related to population growth as well--the problems aren't all environmental in nature.
We'll never destroy ourselves through overpopulation alone. Economic reality will almost always keep us from having more children than we can afford to raise. If our population outpaces resource availability too much, prices of those scarce resources will rise, giving a clear signal for families not to further strain themselves with more mouths to feed, and the overall situation will correct itself before any chaos. If parents can afford another kid and want one, there's no reason to stop them.
@populationconnection Factory farming is another thing. Organic farms are proven to be just as productive as, if not more, than those factory farms. What's happening right now is that some farms are actually abandoned because we can grow a whole magnitude more in the same patch of land than ever. Our productive growth exceeds our population growth. World hunger is a political issue, not because we are running out of food.
@hop208 Let's plan for success and look at another desalinization plant, one built in Israel (Ashkelon Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Plant ). The cost was much less at $212M. The plant's energy requirements is taken from a cleaner source, that is, natural gas to power turbine engines and not oil reserves. It is backed up by the national grid of Israel. It provides 13% of the country's consumer water demand. It has been sustaining operation since 2006. Let's keep pursuing this technology.
I think he means using science and the remaining resources to make artificial food when we run out of the real ones, or genetically engineer plants to meet the growing demands
How can property rights be enforced when there is no conciousness about the damage produced? In developing countries, the state does not enforce property rights, but the pops are ultra-concious about damage to the enviroment. Any kind of "progress" is opposed, like the build-up of factories, no matter how non-polluting they are claimed to be. In developed countries, factories go generally unopposed if someone claims them to be eco-friendly. And that is if it hasnt got inmediate notice effects.
For about a thousand years before WWII, the population slowly increased and stayed between one and two billion, However, after WWII the population started to rise sharply and within the last 50 years, the population has increased by more than three fold. This is very concerning. What will it be like in 2112? There is a documentary about what the world would be like if the population reached 14 billion.
The problem is not total biomass or area of occupation, the problem is resources. No matter how much of them we have now, they are still finite, and the higher the population, the quicker we consume them. We might be comfortably okay with resources for the next few hundred years, but that doesn't mean the resources will last forever.
Does not change the fact that the Earth is finite, so even if we still have thousands of years worth of resources on the planet, they won't last forever.
hopefully by that time we'll have off world colonies, and maybe even standalone space colonies, we don't know what tomorrow might hold, but I think we should start putting more resources toward our space programs for that reason
Where do people get this idea the space race will save humanity? The planet will be screwed up beyond repair WAY before that pie in the sky fantasy is achievable.
Yeah we were supposed to run out of oil about 10 times now in the past century... But we haven't because we find ways to produce more out of the same areas that would be considered "dry" just like all resources. Something is only a resource when we have a use for it. There are many minerals and other things in the earth we can't access now but will in the future.
True. But unlike other species we can think and plan in advance and chose to limit our growth and resource consumption in order to a) share available resources with other species rather than taking them all for ourselves b) do so in a positive, gradual way, before we reach that point where nature will do it for us via mass starvation/disease/war etc.
@ HenrSo whats wrong with living healthier longer lives? You have two options; Increase death rate or reduce birth rates, which is better? Today countries with the LOWEST life expectancy have the HIGHEST population growth while "healthy" countries like those in Europe and Japan have so much access to health yet some of their birth rates are below the replacement line. Clearly today pop growth is not related to Longer life, but rather, lack of access to contraception, Edu, and such.
why is there suddenly 20+ dots in Northern Siberia in 1910 at 5:29? also, after the World Wars, the map got pretty unrealistic, should've used a different color dot to indicate 10 million people.
It's simple - reduce population growth in the main areas: China (already implemented), Asia, Africa, Coastal South America, Central America and - WAIT FOR IT - EUROPE AND USA. Despite the belief that there are 'better' people in various continents, the consumers of most of the world's resources are in the developed countries in Europe and Nth America, The video shows how Europe and the USA have as much responsibility as the standard of living is higher so the impact on resources increases.
We actually limit our growth to what is locally sustainable, not as if resources were infinite. Technological advances allow more growth, but we have been hiding the resource limitations. We need to instead expose the true costs, and then people will react appropriately.
Actually,what we are really going to do is grow our crops on aircrarft carrier sized boats in the ded zones of the sea. This will conserve land, give us a new place to gather water, allow us to conserve water with to-the-roots watering systems, create shadows in the sea thus contributing to the end of global warming,allow us to grow huge fuel supplies which triply end global warming with forest conservation, clean fuel and ocean shadows; and we can build artificial islands.
"If present growth rates continue" (5:45) should always alert you to BS. The one certainty about present trends is that they don't continue - that's why they're identified as *present* trends in the first place and not just "the trend". The global population growth rate's been slowing for nearly half a century, and the total number will never double again. That's why they stopped the animation at 2030: to go on would undermine their alarmist message. The graphic was crude, the size and spread of the dots giving a quite false impression and showing millions where they simply won't be (Himalayas, Gobi). It's the slower-growing populations that consume most. Slowing population growth in the countries where people consume least won't stop our slide to disaster - just look at resource use by China whose critics whine about its draconian population control policies. But fraudsters like ZPG blame poor brown people for rich people's wastefulness rather than confront overconsumption nearer home: as usual, it's a case of "Let's blame the poor for our crisis".
***** They haven't actually: numbers added annually have been falling globally since the late 1980s, the annual growth rate since the late 1960s. Births are still at something like a high, but the global birth rate's been falling for a century or more. The one rate that will rise is for deaths (starting about now, as it happens) as the world's post-1945 baby-boomers age and new generations become a smaller proportion: the only rising rate is the one that will slow growth still further. Growth won't happen faster. It's already been slowing (2% annual growth in the 1960s, 1.1% today) - and that's the one trend that's likely to continue, because births per head have been coming down for two generations (by more than 40% to date) which means a lower proportion in future of young couples having children (and fewer children born to each, reflecting urbanisation, improved education, higher incomes and wider access to contraception) and a higher proportion of elderly reaching the end of their span. The population explosion already happened: it's bit late for these people to whine about it. But you really should know all this before you start posting statements to the contrary. You can be forgiven given the misrepresentation coming from outfits like ZPG. I see they've retitled this "Old Version" since I commented. I'll have to find the new one.
A population size of a trillion people would be 141 times the size of the current population. Since the earth's crust contains 32.4 billion years' worth of fission fuel at today's energy-consumption rate, both the population size and per-capita power-consumption could increase such that the new power-consumption rate were 1,000x the present, and the fuel supply would still be worth 32.4 million years.
They only have larger populations because those areas of the world are where the earliest and most advanced of the ancient civilizations developed. Europe civilized long after Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. They may have larger populations, but China has a low birth rate. The U.S. also uses more resources as a country and per individual than any other nation.
This is what happens when an animal doesn't have a predator.
ryan jansen Hitler!
Obama
ryan jansen The only predator's are ourselves.
+ozzy85Mpower putin
the searching wind deep
My teacher showed us this in class years ago. I’m scared. .____.
Why are you scared? More people enjoying life, is surely a very good thing.
People think that there are too many people, it's undeniable that there is a lot of people but the earth can still handle a lot. Everyone says that the earths population is growing but, actually the population growth in the future will be very low or actually be negative. Already developed countries have aging and declining populations Italy, Russia, Japan. even lesser developed or developing nations have very low fertility rates of 1.4
Low fertility rates of 1.4 or lower and a median age in the 40's or lower. And I'm not talking just about Japan or South Korea or Italy or Russia... I'm talking about Cuba, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela
if you want to see how fast its growing go to worldometers.com
Antonio Maldonado you also forgot to mention Mexico hon. Everyone assumes that mexicans and latinos have so many children, but this is not the case. in fact its birth rates are now at the same level of the US, and by the end of the next century, they will be even lower
Delia D I know that lol, I'm Mexican. That about Mexicans having large families...Well that stereotype that was more true more like in the 60's, but now fertility rates are only a little more than 2 children per family. There are still big families, but nowhere near as much as what they used to be. Nowhere near as many families with Jesus, Paco, Maria, Jose, Agustin, and Gabriela and mom and dad...BTW I'm making up the names.
Antonio Maldonado Isn't Mexico City the most populous city on the planet? Your observations appear defensive, and nieve to the degrading effects human population has had on the quality of life on this planet. Don't base your qualitative values on what you see now. It is poor compared to just 50 years ago. In another 50, we will see people fighting for water.
No, ITS THAT CREEPY HEARTBEAT SOUND
Errors:
- No baltic, black, caspian seas, great lakes
- Overpopulated Kazakhstan, Tibet, Sahara
Gonaa Gond it said it has to spread it out to show how populated it is (They should have used one dot per million)
Gonaa Gond the again it's from 16 years ago
I'm doing this for class...ooh yeah!
WE SHOULD TAKE BIKINI BOTTOM AND PUSH IT SOMEWHERE ELSE !!!
Nice this channel is still active.
@goodguys9 As explained at the beginning of the video, dots represent one million people and are placed in the middle of where those million people live. You'll see that the dots in Canada are concentrated along the U.S. border, where most people live, and the dots in Russia are concentrated in the cities.
keep making em!!
@8DJUSTINCREDIBLE
I'm 18 too, and the thought of having kids right now is terrifying. Before modern medicine, people had more kids because they had smaller chances of living to adulthood, but that's certainly changed in most parts of the world. My AP Human geography teacher showed our class this video, it scares me: It's so chilling how much the population of the world has sky-rocketed in only the last couple hundred years.
nice image compilation
the UN seems to have the most credible projection data for populations and they keep revising it downwards, now it is: 8 billion on low estimate 10.5 on high for 2050. I don't think any one would expect population to double in 2009 "over the next fifty years", even on highest projected models. very curious to see where these guys got their data from.
I do love the map :)
THE FACT THAT THIS IS 14 YEARS IS CRAZY
What map projection did you use? Impressive, but an equal-area projection may have been better.
Black sea is black. OK.
Jérôme Circonflexe So is the Caspian Sea, and other waters virtually disconnected to oceans, except for the Mediterranean.
The map is drawn wrong! if you look in sweden, you wont fine one of the seas (or any sea at all, all over the world)
This is scary. With life expectancies rising, this map will be all white in 100-200 years.
But if we live longer and longer, it will still rise.
Showing this in my oral presentation thanks
Guys each dot represents one person right
1 million people.
+Aidan Mullan If that was true there would be less than a million people on earth. I hate to say it but the higher the population is the more idiots there are.
There was a dot first on Edinburgh around 1250AD which could well be right but then a dot in Highland, Scotland?, the population of the Highlands is to this day around 232'000 people.
I liked the video though it was quite unique with the sound effects, made it interesting and spooky
@DCfreak87 You are correct that all population estimates are just that--estimates based on projections. We cannot know exactly how many people are on earth. We can only use the data available and make the most educated assumptions.
@ianripken Actually, the guy said that dots will increase outward to show accurately the population on the edges. Also, ND has 2 freakin dots cuz the dots can also show the population of a big area by being placed in the middle of it.
@hop208 My view is himalayas will provide future fresh water for south asia for a long time as they have a LOT of water up there so no soon water crysis I suppose
Great video. I think you could lose 30 secs of the intro, though, to get people into it more quickly.
My heart is beating so my heart will go on
this is the better quality than the other.
Like I said before, to another commenter who said the same thing you did, I really wish I could be as optimistic as you about that. Unfortunately, I believe mankind is too deeply polluted with superstition, greed and ignorance for something like that to actually be thought of before it's too late.
@victormgv Education--especially for girls--is a huge influence on fertility rates, as you stated. In most cases, the better-educated women use contraception to limit their family size because they have knowledge of its existence, where to get it, and how to use it. These methods that you call inhumane (I assume modern contraception?) are the exact methods that educated women employ to reduce their fertility.
hey, what happened to baltic sea?
+Maciej Qas It disappeared as well as the Black Sea.
+inyazserg Sergey Larin And the Caspian.
+Bianey Velasquez Nunez really?
Maciej Qas All seas virtually disconnected to oceans are missing. In fact, the western part of the Baltic still remains.
Koray Acar But the black sea and baltic sea are connected to the ocean
@JonaBay Those of us who support population stabilization do so in order to avoid a situation like the one you described. Most people don't want to live in a world where people are "dropping like flies" for lack of adequate food, shelter, and medicine. The purpose of population stabilization is to improve the quality of life for people. Population stabilization is the means we advocate for making life better for women, children, households, and societies.
@thedodger2x Large scale desalination plants and the amount of infrastructure needed to make the water available to the public would cost billions of dollars and the construction would need to start immediately. Not only that, but with the current technology to separate the salt and other impurities form the water isn't sustainable on that scale. All current large scale desalination plants (like in Dubai) run on massive amounts of oil. Indian oil consumption would go up dramatically.
this video was made 20 years ago and the phone number still works
@uncballer28 Most governments conduct a census every ten years or so. The Demographic and Health Surveys are used in many developing countries as well. We know roughly how many babies are born in each country each year. Many countries with rapidly growing populations have policies that encourage family planning, but can't afford to provide universal access to contraceptive services. Donor countries like the United States can help by funding voluntary family planning programs.
Okay, here are some details about the world population as of my knowledge cutoff in August 2023:
In August 2023, the global population was estimated to be around 7.9 billion people. This represented a steady increase from previous years, with the population growing by about 1.1% annually in the years leading up to 2023.
The countries with the largest populations were:
1. China - 1.41 billion
2. India - 1.38 billion
3. United States - 331 million
4. Indonesia - 273 million
5. Pakistan - 221 million
Population growth rates varied significantly by region, with Africa and parts of Asia experiencing the fastest growth, while Europe and North America had slower growth or even population decline in some cases.
The aging of populations in many developed countries was also an emerging trend, with higher proportions of elderly residents. This was driven by declining birth rates and increased life expectancy.
Let me know if you need any other details about the world population as of that time period. I'd be happy to provide more information.
Each dot represents 1 million people and they are concentrated in the urban areas because that's where the actual population is concentrated.
@meralodem This is simply incorrect. Donor countries do indeed bring their technical expertise to developing countries. They teach medical professionals how to insert long-acting methods of contraception; they educate nurses about life-saving medications to stop hemorrhaging after childbirth; they help non-profit workers in developing countries run public health campaigns; etc.
I remember us watching this in 6th grade science for renewable and nonrenewable resources. Good times.
@DCfreak87 - They say 3 babies are born every second, the population is growing wildly, I don't think
anyone knows how many people there are anymore, the more the population grows the harder to keep
track of the total. Population is growing everywhere, who is counting the babies being born in remote
areas that no one cares about, humans are procreating more than ever because we are more than ever,
population growth is unavoidable, why worry, let it grow, we can't stop it!
I think the number of people in the Americas and Australia before the colonial event had been unintentionally underestimated by a bit.
There is little information regarding the population of the Americas during the period prior to the Western conquests. Most of the information available are conjectures.
Especially America. There were 100,000+ cities in America pre Columbian time. Mostly in the area that is now Mexico, Central America and Peru. But there were also at different times cities of less than 100,000 in other parts of America in pre Columbian times. In the areas I already mentioned but also what is now the USA, Colombia and other places.
I had to pause at 2000 A.D.
The beating was too intense for me.
@Mike0Powell Standing room isn't really the issue. We also need land to grow food and absorb our waste (including trees to absorb carbon emissions). We're not the only beings on this planet--wildlife needs a home as well. There are countless social and health issues related to population growth as well--the problems aren't all environmental in nature.
Interesting, But I don't think there will be so much people in the area of Tibet etc. in the future!
much better quality
What year did history teachers show this to students?
Is that the soundtrack to the space 4X game Space Empires IV?
Still overcrowded to this day!
We'll never destroy ourselves through overpopulation alone. Economic reality will almost always keep us from having more children than we can afford to raise. If our population outpaces resource availability too much, prices of those scarce resources will rise, giving a clear signal for families not to further strain themselves with more mouths to feed, and the overall situation will correct itself before any chaos. If parents can afford another kid and want one, there's no reason to stop them.
That map was the most distorted map I've ever seen.
Australia is still a lonely place but it has the warm climate and plenty ground for plant and live.
The industrial revolution really set things in motion.
I hope you are mentioning that in favor of it, because thats exactly what this world needs. Literally.
@populationconnection Factory farming is another thing. Organic farms are proven to be just as productive as, if not more, than those factory farms.
What's happening right now is that some farms are actually abandoned because we can grow a whole magnitude more in the same patch of land than ever. Our productive growth exceeds our population growth.
World hunger is a political issue, not because we are running out of food.
I can't watch this because of the heartbeat
@hop208 Let's plan for success and look at another desalinization plant, one built in Israel (Ashkelon Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) Plant ). The cost was much less at $212M. The plant's energy requirements is taken from a cleaner source, that is, natural gas to power turbine engines and not oil reserves. It is backed up by the national grid of Israel. It provides 13% of the country's consumer water demand. It has been sustaining operation since 2006. Let's keep pursuing this technology.
I think he means using science and the remaining resources to make artificial food when we run out of the real ones, or genetically engineer plants to meet the growing demands
How can property rights be enforced when there is no conciousness about the damage produced?
In developing countries, the state does not enforce property rights, but the pops are ultra-concious about damage to the enviroment. Any kind of "progress" is opposed, like the build-up of factories, no matter how non-polluting they are claimed to be. In developed countries, factories go generally unopposed if someone claims them to be eco-friendly. And that is if it hasnt got inmediate notice effects.
If you watch the video again, you'll see that the first dots to disappear are in China, followed by the dots in Europe.
For about a thousand years before WWII, the population slowly increased and stayed between one and two billion, However, after WWII the population started to rise sharply and within the last 50 years, the population has increased by more than three fold. This is very concerning. What will it be like in 2112? There is a documentary about what the world would be like if the population reached 14 billion.
wow i can't just believe this. comparing 1994 (when i was born) to 2013...
If you'd like some actual data to go with your opinions, check out the UN World Population Prospects database.
"when we're fighting wars for the last remaining scraps of food and clean water."
People don't make food and clean water?
The problem is not total biomass or area of occupation, the problem is resources. No matter how much of them we have now, they are still finite, and the higher the population, the quicker we consume them. We might be comfortably okay with resources for the next few hundred years, but that doesn't mean the resources will last forever.
Does not change the fact that the Earth is finite, so even if we still have thousands of years worth of resources on the planet, they won't last forever.
On the rocket ride to a population crash, then thermageddon, from overpopulation and pollution.
No, they already enforce it in major cities like shanghai and beijing and are on of the only countries that enforce this rules
hopefully by that time we'll have off world colonies, and maybe even standalone space colonies, we don't know what tomorrow might hold, but I think we should start putting more resources toward our space programs for that reason
Where do people get this idea the space race will save humanity? The planet will be screwed up beyond repair WAY before that pie in the sky fantasy is achievable.
Yeah we were supposed to run out of oil about 10 times now in the past century...
But we haven't because we find ways to produce more out of the same areas that would be considered "dry" just like all resources. Something is only a resource when we have a use for it. There are many minerals and other things in the earth we can't access now but will in the future.
what happened to the 300 somewhat mio population of USA? Why don't I see it in this clip?
Oh do we? Is space mining a thing already?
True. But unlike other species we can think and plan in advance and chose to limit our growth and resource consumption in order to a) share available resources with other species rather than taking them all for ourselves b) do so in a positive, gradual way, before we reach that point where nature will do it for us via mass starvation/disease/war etc.
I think he meant that the Black Sea is missing (as is the Baltic and Caspian)
@ HenrSo whats wrong with living healthier longer lives? You have two options; Increase death rate or reduce birth rates, which is better? Today countries with the LOWEST life expectancy have the HIGHEST population growth while "healthy" countries like those in Europe and Japan have so much access to health yet some of their birth rates are below the replacement line. Clearly today pop growth is not related to Longer life, but rather, lack of access to contraception, Edu, and such.
And more people are still being born and moving in and at the same time some people die and population decreases
the video image is too poor, you need to fix it more
why is there suddenly 20+ dots in Northern Siberia in 1910 at 5:29?
also, after the World Wars, the map got pretty unrealistic, should've used a different color dot to indicate 10 million people.
+Donald Fung Gulag
It's simple - reduce population growth in the main areas: China (already implemented), Asia, Africa, Coastal South America, Central America and - WAIT FOR IT - EUROPE AND USA. Despite the belief that there are 'better' people in various continents, the consumers of most of the world's resources are in the developed countries in Europe and Nth America, The video shows how Europe and the USA have as much responsibility as the standard of living is higher so the impact on resources increases.
We actually limit our growth to what is locally sustainable, not as if resources were infinite. Technological advances allow more growth, but we have been hiding the resource limitations. We need to instead expose the true costs, and then people will react appropriately.
Please show your math. Would you like to see mine?
the nile delta was empty? strange..
cooooolll
@lordkickenwing thx
this is a very well done video
WHERE İS BALTIC SEA, BLACK SEA, CASPIAN SEA?!
👍👍👍👍👍
Colonization of other planets?
The beating is the sound of humanity growing like wildfire, it will be unsettling when
you can't walk because there are too many babies in your way!!
This video creeps me out
Actually,what we are really going to do is grow our crops on aircrarft carrier sized boats in the ded zones of the sea. This will conserve land, give us a new place to gather water, allow us to conserve water with to-the-roots watering systems, create shadows in the sea thus contributing to the end of global warming,allow us to grow huge fuel supplies which triply end global warming with forest conservation, clean fuel and ocean shadows; and we can build artificial islands.
You also can't see the Great Lakes in the U.S.
"If present growth rates continue" (5:45) should always alert you to BS. The one certainty about present trends is that they don't continue - that's why they're identified as *present* trends in the first place and not just "the trend". The global population growth rate's been slowing for nearly half a century, and the total number will never double again. That's why they stopped the animation at 2030: to go on would undermine their alarmist message. The graphic was crude, the size and spread of the dots giving a quite false impression and showing millions where they simply won't be (Himalayas, Gobi). It's the slower-growing populations that consume most. Slowing population growth in the countries where people consume least won't stop our slide to disaster - just look at resource use by China whose critics whine about its draconian population control policies. But fraudsters like ZPG blame poor brown people for rich people's wastefulness rather than confront overconsumption nearer home: as usual, it's a case of "Let's blame the poor for our crisis".
***** They haven't actually: numbers added annually have been falling globally since the late 1980s, the annual growth rate since the late 1960s. Births are still at something like a high, but the global birth rate's been falling for a century or more. The one rate that will rise is for deaths (starting about now, as it happens) as the world's post-1945 baby-boomers age and new generations become a smaller proportion: the only rising rate is the one that will slow growth still further. Growth won't happen faster. It's already been slowing (2% annual growth in the 1960s, 1.1% today) - and that's the one trend that's likely to continue, because births per head have been coming down for two generations (by more than 40% to date) which means a lower proportion in future of young couples having children (and fewer children born to each, reflecting urbanisation, improved education, higher incomes and wider access to contraception) and a higher proportion of elderly reaching the end of their span. The population explosion already happened: it's bit late for these people to whine about it. But you really should know all this before you start posting statements to the contrary. You can be forgiven given the misrepresentation coming from outfits like ZPG. I see they've retitled this "Old Version" since I commented. I'll have to find the new one.
They didn't have advanced medicine back then or modern technology, that is why it wasn't so high.
Если эти такое видео и популяцией разных животных?
@Assassin2036 Actually 7,015,988,747
Earth has plenty of resources for a population of a trillion people sustained for millions of years.
A population size of a trillion people would be 141 times the size of the current population. Since the earth's crust contains 32.4 billion years' worth of fission fuel at today's energy-consumption rate, both the population size and per-capita power-consumption could increase such that the new power-consumption rate were 1,000x the present, and the fuel supply would still be worth 32.4 million years.
i saw this at class today
The history of what, specifically? The Green Revolution?
@hop208 LIsten, the solution is already available. They are called desalinization plants rendering the oceans waters drinkable.
They only have larger populations because those areas of the world are where the earliest and most advanced of the ancient civilizations developed. Europe civilized long after Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. They may have larger populations, but China has a low birth rate. The U.S. also uses more resources as a country and per individual than any other nation.