PopulationExplosion?

October 31, 2008 at 11:18 am · Filed under Policy, Surveillance, economics, environment

From the sustainable scale project. The current population of 6.4 billion people is almost eight and one half times larger than the population of 760 million at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. At current growth rates, the world population could double in as little as 58 years.

This rapid increase in population parallels that of both increased GWP (GLOSSARY) and increased environmental degradation of global ecosystems.

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