Words & Numbers: Episode 301: 8 Billion

Episode 301: 8 Billion

Nov 16, 2022

The world population crossed the 8 billion mark this week. As far back as at least the late 1700s, experts were predicting that overpopulation would lead to mass starvation. Time and again, the experts end up being both right and wrong. They tend to be right in their projections that the world population is exploding, but they are always wrong about it leading to mass starvation. In fact, today’s 8 billion people live far better lives than did the 1 billion that lived back in the late 1700s.

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Quick Hits
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7kbq/palmer-luckey-made-a-vr-headset-that-kills-the-user-if-they-die-in-the-game

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/election-deniers-lose-races-for-key-state-offices-in-every-2020-battleground/ar-AA1433zT
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/13/trump-election-deniers-accept-2022-results-00066626
https://dnyuz.com/2022/11/12/trump-angst-wracks-republicans-again-as-2024-announcement-looms/

Foolishness of the Week
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/10/business/kfc-germany-kristallnacht

Topic of the Week

https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution

https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation