Andrew Sage

We had Charles Lindenberg completing the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

And then also in 1927, we had the release of the first feature length film to feature synchronized sound for dialogue.

Quite the time to be alive.

You fast forward to 33 years later, 1960, and we had 3 billion people.

By then, Nigeria had just gained its independence, JFK was in the White House, Ham the chimpanzee went to space, and the FDA approved the first ever birth control pill.

But the birth control pill didn't really kick in, in terms of, you know, hampering our growth for some time.

By 1974, 14 years later, we had 4 billion people.

By then, Nixon had resigned, Turkey had invaded Cyprus, Portugal overthrew its dictatorship, The Godfather Part II came out, and ABBA was still at the top of the charts.

1987, 13 years later is when we got 5 billion people.

That's when we had most of the major colonies around the world gaining their independence or having already had gained their independence.

You know, Thatcher was beginning her third term and the Simpsons first appeared on TV.

12 years later, in 1999, we had the Y2K panic, the Clinton impeachment, the SpongeBob premiere, the introduction of the Euro, and 6 billion people made their debut on planet Earth.

2011, 12 years later, we hit 7 billion people and that was in the midst of the Arab Spring, a tsunami hit in Japan, the Occupy movement, the premiere of Game of Thrones and really the beginning of smartphones and social media taking over the world.

Finally, by 2022, which is 11 years after 2011, we hit 8 billion people amidst Russia invading Ukraine, the growing popularity of TikTok, and Elon's purchase of Twitter.

So from 1804 to 2022, we went from 1 billion people to 8 billion people.

And the UN expects it to grow by about 1.9 billion between now and 2100.

So we'll end up reaching from 8.2 billion people to 10.2 billion people.

And population is projected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the century.

So with this rapid population growth trend,

there has been a lot of fears surrounding overpopulation.