Tag Archives: world population

Humans Boom while Birds Crash

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Roger Gosden

The United Nations estimates that our population reached 8 billion this week. In 1900, it was 1.6 billion but by the turn of the 21st century, we had grown to over 6 billion. That is nearly 2 billion more mouths … Continue reading →

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Demography of IVF and World Population

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Roger Gosden

Predicting the future is fickle, as Stephen Hawking once observed: “it exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.” And, yet, divining the future is irresistible and physicists strive to forecast the future of stars, black holes and climate. Biologists are … Continue reading →

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