From Ten Thousand Humans to Eight Billion | The Hockey Stick Graph | Demographics EP 01
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Creator's Key Takeaways
10,000 years ago, the entire human population on planet Earth was just 5 million people.
In 1798, this English clergyman, Thomas Malthus, he laid out this argument that population grows geometrically...
Julian Simon, the optimist, had won the bet.
Humanity is about to hit its peak population and then begin to shrink.
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From Ten Thousand Humans to Eight Billion | The Hockey Stick Graph | Demographics EP 01 Demographics Series EP 01 — The story of how world population exploded. Ten thousand years ago, only five million humans lived on Earth. It took roughly two hundred thousand years to reach the first billion, but only 222 years to go from one billion to eight billion. This episode covers the entire hockey stick graph—Malthus and his 1798 warning, the Black Death, John Snow's cholera map, the Green Revolution, the Simon-Ehrlich Bet, and why both the UN and IHME now project that global population will peak within our lifetimes. A complete history of humanity's population explosion in one episode. No background required. #theexpme #Demographics #Population #Malthus #History #Megatrend #Investing #GlobalTrends