It took a long time to get going. But once we did, damn, we kind of got out of control didn’t we?
Advertisement
It took us 200,000 years to reach our first billion humans but only 200 years to hit seven billion. Watch as this map tracks how the world’s population grew and shows how we spread across the globe and highlights the empires and historic events that have helped us take over Earth like a pandemic.
[American Museum of Natural History via Digg]
DISCUSSION
Before too many people crank out dogwhistle racist comments about population growth in the 3rd world, heres a good video from the rad Hans Rosling about how to slow population growth: