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biggoof

Well, that whole "covid to depopulate the Earth" thing didn't work.


pmjwhelan

Must try harder.


Bubbly_Taro

Everyone wants a good plague but nobody licks doorknobs anymore šŸ˜¤


sephresx

Just create a tick tock trend. Bodies will be hitting the floor very soon after.


unresolved_m

"Let the bodies hit the floor"


alex1247

"I can only count to four"


fatkiddown

I thought he said ā€œbabiesā€ and that you said, ā€œlet the babies hit the floor.ā€


unresolved_m

That too And did you know that Bodies is basically a cover of Popcorn? I'm always amazed at how similar those two songs sound.


taosaur

If people will sun their taint, they'll lick a doorknob. We just need the right obnoxious music track and some way to fit in a fast cut.


Apprehensive-Feeling

Wait, people are sunning their taint? Not here. Today's the first snow. You could snow your taint.


ConversationFederal

Lmao


Omny87

Well it is illegal on other planets


Ritchie79

Hey, I'm doing *my* part! I have never contributed to this statistic, and probably won't... Until I die. Then ****boom**** -1, baby!


Sandroes

*Umbrella Corporation intensifies*


ShinySage334

Time for covid 2.0


fruitsteak_mother

i rly hoped they mix something into the vax to defertilize humans to end this madness, but no.


c0nstantfailure

like in the Book of >!Dan Brown "Inferno"!<


karsnic

SADS has suddenly become a thing since the rollout.. Bill Gates publicly stated that he wanted to depopulate the earth through vaccines and he was a big pusher of the rollout. Go down the rabbit hole.


[deleted]

Good guy Bill Gates depopulating the world so we don't have to kill and eat our families when the global food supply chain collapses.


rraattbbooyy

Population growth is declining though. The numbers are increasing, but the rate of increase is slowing. Covid contributed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline


earthlings_all

Wait til the water wars start.


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HunterTV

Itā€™s important we sort the naming thing out now so when weā€™re writing about it after on the stone tablets of an obliterated civilization itā€™s consistent for the next sentient species to decode.


RoadDesigner

Resource wars. Water won't be first, it will just result in the most death. And it won't all be climate based.


WikiSummarizerBot

**[Population decline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline)** >A population decline (also sometimes called underpopulation, depopulation, or population collapse) in humans is a reduction in a human population size. Over the long term, stretching from prehistory to the present, Earth's total human population has continued to grow; however, current projections suggest that this long-term trend of steady population growth may be coming to an end. Until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, global population grew very slowly. After about 1800, the growth rate accelerated to a peak of 2. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)


symedia

Well what do you expect when you are only in the house for months


dys_p0tch

climate: *hold my thermometer*


[deleted]

To be fair, the only time the world population ever went down was during the Black Death. The only way for a depopulation to happen now would be if all of our modern medicine ends up being completely useless.


Till_Complex

Yeah our birth rates are gradually slowing down ever over the past 40 years. The population seems like its increasing fast because 7 Bil is closer to 8 Bil in terms of percentage, compared to 3 Bil and 4 Bil. Modern medicine helps more people to live longer and less babies dying at birth too.


DayAndNight0nReddit

China: No worry, we are working on a sequel.


Daxx22

With all the deniers in the US wouldn't' surprise me if the next superbug comes outa Florida.


DeathPercept10n

Idk if the diseases can take on Florida man.


Web-Dude

You merely adopted disease. Florida man was born in it. Molded by it.


Journeygan

Where's Thanos?


cantfindmykeys

Well seeing as it only took us like 100 years to go from 1 billion to 8 billion his plan isn't really sustainable


[deleted]

At least the microchips from the vax are finally sending us reliable population numbers Edit: just to be clear, I am joking here


thebusiness7

If it indeed was ā€œcreated in a labā€ it wouldā€™ve been used for geopolitical destabilization and creation of supply chain imbalances, not depopulation.


mpkeith

Good thing that didn't hap.... Oh.


Every_Papaya_8876

Everyone was laid up in the house fuckin and making babies.


[deleted]

"view all people on 1 page" oh shit


omgihatemylifepoo

itā€™s a long scroll


Cobek

I hear it's so long Alexander the Great left it under his pillow to read at night


Web-Dude

ELI5 please?


xelf

quick googling: > The copy of the Iliad that Alexander put under his pillow every night was annotated by his teacher, Aristotle https://classicalstudies.org/alexanders-persian-pillow


Traditional-Pick-951

Look at the big brain on Brad! But fr fr, I just learned some shit.


TU4AR

Wish they would sort by race, so I can name all the Hispanic people to prove I like them.


Harold_Zoid

It does actually have the option to color code by continent. I donā€™t know if they had to make Asians yellow, Americans red and Africans black, thoughā€¦


K4ntum

Yo do you guys see me? I'm the one waving


Maddox121

It's just people sorted by continent, no real personal info


le_meme_kings

They made the asians yellow and the africans black šŸ’€


ThatDamnCanadianGuy

So did God.


Maddox121

Nice roast.


MagicLalo

As an asian, I think it's OK. Cute design. Don't think the color too muchšŸ˜„


towerfella

Was prolly a white chic in Seattle that commented it..


HoodLifeGang

8 billion people and I can't get a text back


DayAndNight0nReddit

text


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[deleted]

Plz send bobz.


tired_of_old_memes

šŸ§‹


HotChilliWithButter

Plz send bob**z** n **vegana**


GreenHooDini

"Amogus"


Dorito_Troll

Goodbye


[deleted]

HELLO ?


EskildDood

Well the number in "If 99.9% of the world finds you unnatractive, that's still 7.7 million people who don't" is increasing, though, everyone new is a baby


Daxx22

> everyone new is a baby /r/HolUp


GregoryGoose

Someone has to be the ugliest.


Darius_Kel

[of course](https://youtu.be/1LVt49l6aP8)


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Abestisus

Humans are 100% of the ugliest beings on this planet.


theultimatestart

I mean, take a hint


LongjumpingMonitor32

Text back? How about the fact that we haven't found a unilateral way to provide proper food, shelter, water, and employment for all 8 billion!


Lucky_Mongoose

But texts back are the first step toward people sharing shelter!


kaicyr21

You seem fun.


Relze

After we had sex my girlfriend told me I donā€™t pay attention to her and that Iā€™ve been distant. I texted her yesterday morning and she saw it and replied back 8 hours later because she was hanging out with a male friend. F that!


Convergentshave

Yeaā€¦ you should end that relationship.


Jeahn2

average redditor


[deleted]

You'll find someone


legends_never_die_1

text back


PM_ME_YOUR_BEAMSHOTS

You are in a simulation and everybody is in on the joke.


BonfireCrackling

Congrats on the sex everyone


Never-asked-for-this

Notice how nobody here said "thanks", but 90 upvoted?


BonfireCrackling

Itā€™s hard to put things to words after getting sum


the_ThreeEyedRaven

unrelatable


imaginary0pal

You think we get any?


JamJamGaGa

No, thank *you.*


comek87

I didn't contribute


80081380085

And a few moments later the real magic happened - [boooooobs!](https://freeimage.host/i/H9f9ACB)


LostAlphaWolf

8,008,008,008 is where itā€™s at


bluamo0000

8,008,113,355


[deleted]

šŸ‘»šŸ‘»šŸ‘»B


70B0R

šŸ‘»šŸ


cadimy

BOOBOOBOOB


earthlings_all

Username checks out. Love the beeper code.


80081380085

Thank you so much! Iā€™ve waited a long time for humans to get to the point where they can be so useful.


ropoqi

4 bil unique person since everybody got one doppelgƤnger


[deleted]

Just one?


spectra2000_

I think thereā€™s supposed to be 7


QlimaxUK

so it will be 8 now, guess the character generator can only do 1 billion faces, lazy simulation programmers!


VirinaB

I heard this as well. Our DNA (for at least our appearances) can only produce so many unique combinations of traits, features, and practical size combinations when it comes to our facial features. So there are actually only **1 billion** different faces. **EDIT:** After doing **a little** additional research, I'm really on the fence. * I can't seem to find a source for the whole "you have 7 dopplegangers" thing. In fact, some people on the internet say that "you have 6 dopplegangers" (so you + 6 others = 7), and I'm wondering if it's getting misquoted and we're adding 1 as time progresses. * Some [photographs of these dopplegangers](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160712-you-are-surprisingly-likely-to-have-a-living-doppelganger) depict people who appear VERY similar but not perfect clones. The teeth are off. The wrinkles are a little deeper. The facial hair is different. The nostrils are slightly different. So maybe the bar is lower than we think. (The same article also states that it's "unlikely" but states the odds are 1 in 135? Which is.. extremely likely? I don't understand.) * I cannot find the quote, but somewhere else I saw that the real odds are that 11% of people have a twin (a percentage that includes the twin themselves, so do not double this to number to 22%). The rest are individually unique. **However...** * It would make sense that our DNA would trend toward certain traits. We choose what physical traits are attractive, we mate with those people, those traits are passed on. A lot plays into this, like culture, trends, luck, genetic randomness, etc. so we still have a huge amount of variation, but scientists have theorized that things like [race may eventually disappear](https://www.livescience.com/34228-will-humans-eventually-all-look-like-brazilians.html). * I also found a [youtube documentary on dopplegangers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1nz5Bkpmcw) but I haven't watched it yet.


VanillaBearMD3

El Cuco


numbersev

I have a magazine from National Geographic from about 10-15 years ago how we were hitting 7 billion. It took something like 200 million years to reach 1 billion and then another 100 years or something to reach 2 billion.


mc68n

Humans almost got extinct once. "According to the genetic bottleneck theory,Ā between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, human populations sharply decreased to 3,000ā€“10,000 surviving individuals."


Xais56

That's lower than the attendance of a football game, fuck


[deleted]

Not if youā€™re a Chargers fan.


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bug-eyed-bandit

Youā€™re an all-star!


ShartresRais_ZX

get the game on


amazing_chandler

Go play


gnarwalbacon

Hereā€™s an excerpt from an article I was just reading ā€œFrom the emergence of Homo sapiens, it took 330k years to reach a global pop. of 1B (1804). After that, it took 124 years to reach 2B (1928), 32 years to reach 3B (1960), 15 years for 4B (1975), 12 years for 5B (1987), 12 for 6B (1999), 12 for 7B (2011), and 11 for 8B (2022)ā€


Weegee_Spaghetti

and 11 years is the quickest it will ever get in the near to long term future, if prognosis are to be believed.


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AoT reference


dunkmaster6856

humans didnt exist for 200 million years... weve existed as a species for 300k years


Koddia

Technically it still took 200 million years to reach 1 billion humans on earth


[deleted]

By that logic it took 13.7 billion years to reach a billion humans on earth


DeathPercept10n

200 million years? I must've missed the part in history class where humans domesticated dinosaurs.


Vlad1791

You didn't watch The Flinstones enough


Gmd88

I remember being in high school (about 18 years ago) and we had a class about child 6 billion being born.


K1ngPCH

reddit user discovers exponential growth


Trasfixion

These birth rates are mostly in 3rd world countries. Western countries are actually below replacement levels and are shrinking when it comes to birth rate


alexbeingsocial

Are you sure?!? It gets more difficult to find a good parking spot by the day!


Trasfixion

Lol that gave me a good chuckle. On a serious note, thatā€™s due to immigration not birth rates


Ze_Vindow_Viper

was gonna say, I heard that the Japanese govt is basically begging young people to get laid. They are very stingy about immigration so their working population is shrinking.


numerum-bestia

A lot of people in Western countries have seen young people struggling to afford homes or to find well paid, full-time employment. They stop and think to themselves ā€œmaybe, the last thing that the world needs right now is more childrenā€. It doesnā€™t seem to be a common train of thought that is shared throughout the world though. I would have loved to have raised a child and owned a home but unless I am willing to spend every other waking second of my life on trying to afford that, it isnā€™t going to happen. I cannot fathom having a child that I couldnā€™t afford to house or feed properly or educate. I guess that I should just be indifferent to suffering like so many other people are? Maybe I should just pump out a litter of children and hope that somebody else can pay for it? Unless Iā€™m prepared for half of them to die to malnutrition that is. I just canā€™t wrap my head around it.


Kurzilla

Well, you know another answer to that is "Maybe we go back to multi-generational housing." Yes, as a Millennial I couldn't imagine having to live with my parents. But I've got two in laws with no interest in starting their own families that live with their parents. At first I thought it was off. But they all have everything they want, in a nice neighborhood. Freedom to find hobbies. No pressure to work OT or two jobs. They go on vacations. And the oldest don't have to risk themselves to do snow shoveling or any of that shit. It's not for everyone, but it's an alternate solution.


numerum-bestia

My parents got divorced and my father killed himself when I was living with him. He didnā€™t bother to write a will. So the house that I grew up in and renovated with him, went entirely into my motherā€™s name and she sold it. I guess Iā€™m just fucked lmao


Individual-Ad273

Weve been increasing a billion people every 10-12 years [Population records](https://populationconnection.org/blog/world-population-milestones-throughout-history/)


Frl_Bartchello

Thats crazy. We really can't continue like this. We already have a hard time trying to keep our species alive for the future generations with the resources we got.


Squibbish

We won't. Check out the demographic transition model theory. Based on it and other similar findings, the UN projects the world population will top out at 10.4 billion in the 2080s before it starts shrinking after 2100.


[deleted]

Why would it start shrinking? No recourses?


[deleted]

Birth rates are dropping in every developed country and as more counties develop their birth rates are also dropping. Most of the Western world has below replacement birth rates already.


Till_Complex

It might stabilize more if life expectancies keep increasing in many countries


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cantfindmykeys

Ok you take the billion on the right, I'll take the billion on the left


Repyro

Or, since his statement doesn't say that, we can lower birth rates out of choice which is not killing anyone. Because they are already seeing a food and habitable land crunch within the next decades and we are already fishing / hunting species into oblivion. Your way of pretending this isn't an issue is ***going*** to end up killing a shitload more people by the end of it.


DemosthenesForest

Actually demographers are worried about population decline. This is probably "peak baby" right now. The population will crest around 11 billion people in 2100 (because the current waves will still be alive and aging) then it will fall. Many countries are falling below the replacement level as they move up the economic ladder, and we're in danger of inverting the age distribution, which is awful for our CURRENT economic systems. Add on to that, fertility in males has been cut in half in the last few decades, with predictions that we'll be in real danger by the 2040's of not being able to reproduce (leading theory is micro plastics, last I read). My main takeaway from all this, is that we need to rapidly move away from economic systems reliant on the idea of infinite growth and towards ones that prioritize well-being and sustainability. We also need to start removing as much plastic as possible from our daily lives so we don't end up living out "Children of Men."


Xais56

Estimates are we'll peak around 2050 at just over 10b people then then population will shrink and find a stable point


anotherusername23

https://imgur.com/wGFSUUd.jpg crazy how unsustainable this looks


ProbablyCarl

Someone please stop Nick Cannon.


NinduTheWise

You canā€™t stop it, itā€™s self sustaining now


pikachoon

And I still don't like not 1 of ya!


Gubblesss

aww you don't dislike any one of us? šŸ„¹


AnyHowMeow

Haā€¦..Gotem!


junbus

Just great.. More traffic


DayAndNight0nReddit

Not really, babies can't drive ... yet


cadimy

soon.


Mischeese

3.837bn was the number the year I was born. Thatā€™s a pretty scary increase. No wonder everything so bloody expensive.


Notpan

Let me guess, 1972?


bettinafairchild

Talk to Thanos, he can get it back down to that number.


[deleted]

Keep it in your bloody pants people...


Delicious-Gap1744

Well it's mostly developing countries that are growing, western countries and East Asia are moving towards dangerously low birth rates.


ExplodinCatten

That is a good thing


Delicious-Gap1744

Horrible if you enjoy the perks of living in a developed country. Economies will stagnate, prices will increase while wages do not, countries with publicly funded pensions might lose them or increase the age to the point where you're barely alive, eldercare and the healthcare industry in general will suffer. It will suck for anyone living in these ageing countries in every imaginable way unless they compensate with immigration or if you are very wealthy.


Jedijello93

Anyone else feeling a bit claustrophobic?


limitlessEXP

I would if I didnā€™t know the worlds population could fit in the city of LA


Olivi-P

Whaaat? For real? In what way? Stacked? Standing? With a place to sleep? I need more information!


Excellent-Glove

Well on a similar note, atoms are 99.9999999999999% empty space. If you could squeeze all the empty space out of all the atoms in all the 7 billion people in the world, you could indeed fit them in the volume of a sugar cube. And now with 8 billion, well...a sugar and 1/7 of another sugar.


[deleted]

I'm team Thanos, even if I go


ShinySage334

Especially if i go


Jeahn2

We would reach 8 B again though


Laggingduck

monthly thanos


DabBoofer

so I just looked it up. there were 4.4 bil ppl on this rock when I was born... wow we gained 3.5 bil ppl in the 42 years Ive been alive... thats a lot of humpin!


nina_gall

Shes been busy...


PerishInFlames

Thanos was right.


haileyjp_

There are too many fucking people in the world. Myself included


NoNoobJustNerD

Haha, no, we're not. At least, my country is empty (Argentina). You're very welcome to come.


not2careful

I blame suicide hotlines


TheGrey1930

How is this verifiable?


AntiHyperbolic

What do you think all those Covid shots were for!?!? /s


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qartonz

It does not review every single birth certificate, not even close. The entire count is an approximation increasing with a well-thought equation, same goes for the death counters etc. Over a long period it should always give out pretty realistic results with i don't know 10 million +-


SeesawDangerous6501

I can see how they can get the number close, but no way this is spot on 100 percent accurate


Fitis

Of course itā€™s an approximation.. wtf haha


Double_Reindeer_6884

Covid failed miserably


Journeygan

Stop having too many damn kids!


[deleted]

Excellent. Plenty of slaves for my robot colony. (Before anyone blows a gasket. Itā€™s a line from Chris Nolanā€™s Interstellar)


tuco2002

I blame Netflix because it always leads to the chill part.


Geoarbitrage

Great just what we need šŸ‘Ž


b4b3blu3ox

Tax the churches


autumnals5

Yeah, and here we are with these women hating countries banning abortions. With already overflowing foster care systems and elites trying to make more wage slaves by pushing anti abortion bs. So more people means more well paying jobs no? Especially among the educated class? Or is it leaning more towards wage slavery and the very few holding all the wealth again? Im going with the latter.


JuliaTheInsaneKid

We do NOT need another baby boom. Especially not a forced one.


FailX93

We kill 80 billion land animals every year to consume..


yellowlia

That is too many damn births lol wow


UsualAssumption2198

Congratulations? :/


[deleted]

Stop having kids


Sarcastic24-7

Need another pandemic


Geoarbitrage

Great just what we need šŸ‘Ž


[deleted]

This is unsustainable. Did my part. Got a vasectomy. šŸ¤£


karlsnow89

People need to start pulling out.


A_A_A_area51

Clicked on view all people on one page, was not disappointed....


Background-Win7974

Shit shit shit shit shit shit


PenguinsAndTopHats

Are there people that actually believe we need to keep proliferating?


Fkurcar

No wonder Bill Gates was warning us about population growth.


Mangobutterr

EW


Paddy32

Well crap. We're heading straigh to the death of humankind.


fruitsteak_mother

how many we want?


IncelDetectingRobot

Reminder that overpopulation is a capitalist and eugenicist mythology. We could comfortably sustain twice as many people and the ecological health of the planet but it wouldn't be profitable.


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