If 95% of the people on earth right now were to suddenly die, the total population of the earth would still be higher than it was in the at any point prior to a thousand years ago.
Put another way, in the last thousand years the total number of humans living on earth has increased twenty-fold.
If you added the total number of people who have EVER lived since the dawn of man to the poeple alive today - Only 40% of the total population would be dead
Wich means that you have only a 4/10 chance of ever dying
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Date: 2007-02-15 09:28 pm (UTC)*If* it ever strikes me to have kids (which I don't forsee), I'll adopt. Take care of the boom, not contribute to it.
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Date: 2007-02-16 06:06 am (UTC)Wich means that you have only a 4/10 chance of ever dying