OT: According to Worldometer...

[Lenona]

..we will likely reach 8.2 billion people this Wednesday, 1 am ET. (By
my calculations.)

https://www.worldometers.info/

So, when you put that and this together -

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.obituaries/c/CsVWOXrPf9s/m/i_4PvDTgAwAJ

- that would suggest that we will reach 9 billion by mid-September,
2033. That's fewer than 11 years since we reached 8 billion.)


What's ironic is that that projection is very close to what the United
Nations predicted back in...1990! (Back then, the U.N. said we would
reach 10 billion before 2050.)

But TODAY, the U.N. and almost everyone else are saying we won't reach 9
billion until 2037 and that we'll reach 10 billion by 2058. (That's a
21-year gap!)

So, when DOES this incredible slowdown start? I'm guessing it would have
to start before 2030, anyway!

After all, even WWII didn't cause the global population to fall below
what it was in 1939!

The rate of growth has never slowed down, so far...


1927 (2 billion)

1960

1975

1987

1999

2011

2022

[Lenona]

Or, maybe I should say that the rate of growth has never gone into
REVERSE, per se.

Also, ever since 1927, it has never taken even 50 years for the global
population to DOUBLE, regardless of which year you start counting from.
Even after the end of the baby boom!

(But I'll be surprised if we reach 9 billion by 2031 - the formula will
likely break down before then. Even so, the planet can't afford to
increase its human population by a billion every 20 years - that should
be obvious! As someone said, economically speaking, the problem isn't a
smaller future population - it's the TRANSITION to one.)