Population

I think we will have fun in this unit. I love seeing all of the world population and how fast the whole world gets populated on the world population clock. I've always love those things. To me they are just so interesting. I mean, someone out there in the world had to come up with that estimate and pattern, they had to calculate every single person in the whole world and put all of that into one little thing. But at the same time, that little thing I mentioned is huge at the same time. As of the date I am writing this blog, (October 23, 2018), Over 7.5 BILLION people live on this great earth. It took human kind since the beginning of time to get to where we are right now. The year that the worlds population just peaked over 1 billion people was just in the year 1804. 1804! In all of time, that is not that long ago. And now, it took over 200 years to get to 7 billion people. Again, not a lot of time.From the year 1804, it took 123 years to get to only 2 billion people. Ever since then, the elapsed years have gotten shorter and shorter. It went from 123 years to only 33. From 33 to 14, 14 to 13, 13 to 12, 12 to 12 again. That's fast! Like you said today in class, there are still people living on this earth when there where only 2 billion people populating our home. Every year, approximately 73 million people are born every year. With the trend of the elapsed years it took getting smaller and smaller, eventually there will be a time that every 1 year, there will be 1 billion new people on this earth. The thing is, the rate at which people are being born and people are dying, the deaths in the world are slower than the births (I don't know if that sentence made any sense but hopefully you get what I'm trying to say). This means that there will always be a growth in population, unless there is a serious apocalyptic event that happens sometime in the future. But that's a story for another day.