Population Thought

[mbarrick]

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.

Comments

[sciencequeen.livejournal.com]

Precisely why I'm never having kids!!

*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.

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

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