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Global Population Reaches 8 Billion<\/i>, United Nations, 11.15.22<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On November 15, the population of the world reached 8 billion people.<\/p>\n Until the nineteenth century, it was well under a billion for the entirety of human history. From the beginning of the 20th century until today, it went from 2 billion to 8 billion. It has quadrupled in a little over a hundred years at an increasing rate. It took only 12 years to go from 7 billion in 2010 to 8 billion today. Although the rate has slowed somewhat, there will be 9 billion by 2037, and between 10 and 11 billion by 2100.<\/p>\n It is expected to level off at that point and eventually decline somewhat.<\/p>\n Emphasizing the word expected<\/em>. The unexpected has happened and can happen based on many variables.<\/p>\n However, the strain the population is already putting on the planet–and will–is considered far past capacity by many already. The concept of the planet being limited in space and resources is elementary. While the richer countries have been the main consumers and polluters historically, the largest nations, India and China, with India set to become the largest next year, account for an enormous amount of the environmental and climate crisis, as well as with populations, especially India, including a large proportion of the world’s poorest. China has reduced poverty at a fast rate, but at the cost of using the same economic models established in the richer economies that have created the greatest environmental threats to the planet.<\/p>\n The greatest population growth has occurred among the poorest, the same group that experiences the largest premature deaths, especially of children, from hunger and disease and conflict,\u00a0exacerbated increasingly by climate change. Prosperity and health are the preconditions for slower population growth, along with related issues such as gender equality and education. These are preconditions largely missing in places such as South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa where the rate of growth has been and is projected to be largest in the future. And they are\u00a0preconditions largely missing throughout the world in many ways to varying degrees.<\/p>\n Another way of saying the same old problem is the haves and have nots, in a world that has in many ways become more unequal and less secure than ever.<\/p>\n The world’s population is increasingly much younger, while a growing proportion is also older. Many challenges flow from both.<\/p>\n The following are reports from\u00a0the United Nations, filled with both important facts and political rhetoric. The UN remains the<\/em> global organization for the people and nations of the world. But because it is made up of competing forces in many ways, while it has been a context for progress, it cannot come close to its potential without the competing forces finding resolution and changing in their very nature in some ways.<\/p>\n The most important quote from the press release below from the UN Secretary General is this:<\/p>\n Unless we bridge the yawning chasm between the global haves and have-nots, we are setting ourselves up for an 8-billion-strong world filled with tensions and mistrust, crisis and conflict<\/em>.<\/p>\n This is the core truth cutting through all other rhetoric, that our work has been based on for many decades.<\/p>\n We also include below articles from other sources on this historic day, and the impact of 8 billion people on Planet Earth:<\/p>\n