Global Population Should Pass 9 Billion In 2034
The world population has been growing at an unprecedented rate since World War II. In 1974 the world population crossed 4 billion, and since then every 12 years we have added another 1 billion people until we passed 8 billion people on the planet in 2022. There is nothing stopping this population explosion, and it's the main contributor to excess carbon dioxide being added into our atmosphere. There is one clear fact about CO2, as the world population has grown in the 20th century, the CO2 levels have risen, to nearly half again over the levels before the 20th century. Check the data, excess CO2 only really started rising after World War II when the world population passed around 2.5 billion, then the CO2 levels started to increase dramatically. As the population grew, coal powered electric power plants were built around the planet, belching out vast clouds of dirty smoke combined with CO2, and other fossil fuels were burnt to power wars...