Why are we all here?!?
September 2020
Ok, lets cut straight to the chase. Something's happening, yes? Can you feel it?
It's getting bigger, and faster, and it's on a scale that we've never even come close to being part of before. It's a fascinating, scary, exciting, confusing, extraordinarily powerful time to be alive.
And it's happening right now...
It's getting bigger, and faster, and it's on a scale that we've never even come close to being part of before. It's a fascinating, scary, exciting, confusing, extraordinarily powerful time to be alive.
And it's happening right now...
The total number of humans currently living is estimated to have reached 7,800,000,000 people as of March 2020.
It took over 2,000,000 years of human history for the world's population to reach one billion, and only 200 years more to reach seven billion. And we will be eight billion very soon...
In the year 1804, the world population was 1 million people.
Aboriginal Australians first arrived to their new home 40,000+ years earlier, North America had several arrivals beginning at least 20,000 years ago, and the last great migration of people - to the South Pacific - began 3,500 years ago.
The Egyptian pyramids were built 4,500 years ago, the great civilisations of Greece and Rome and Persia were (roughly!) 2,500 to 1,000 years ago...
The Jewish peoples, under Abraham, were split 2,000 years ago when a man named Jesus arrived, and again 1,500 years ago when a man named Muhammad arrived. The two largest religions of our modern day - Christianity and Islam - were born.
All this happened 1,000+ years before arriving at the year 1804, when the clock ticked over to one billion.
Only 123 years later, in 1927, we were at two billion.
We'd had our first "World War". Cars and planes were an incredible new invention, only a decade or two old. Electricity in homes, and recordings of music, and dial up telephone, were available in densely populated areas. It was not until 1928 that a game changer, the anti-biotic penicillin, was created.
Yes, it was a very different world in 1927. Radio, photography, printing and silent movies were available. True, the very first talking picture was made in 1927, but television was yet to be invented, and YouTube or Zoom were absolute pure fantasy rubbish to any right-thinking person...
1960 ~ Three Billion
It took only 33 years, and another World War in between, but yes here we are with three billion people on the planet... And you definitely know someone who was alive in 1960 (it could even be you!) because hey, it's really not that long ago...
1974 ~ Four Billion
1987 ~ Five Billion
1999 ~ Six Billion
2012 ~ Seven Billion
2024 (?) ~ Eight Billion
What are we all doing here right now? What's going on?!?
It took over 2,000,000 years of human history for the world's population to reach one billion, and only 200 years more to reach seven billion. And we will be eight billion very soon...
In the year 1804, the world population was 1 million people.
Aboriginal Australians first arrived to their new home 40,000+ years earlier, North America had several arrivals beginning at least 20,000 years ago, and the last great migration of people - to the South Pacific - began 3,500 years ago.
The Egyptian pyramids were built 4,500 years ago, the great civilisations of Greece and Rome and Persia were (roughly!) 2,500 to 1,000 years ago...
The Jewish peoples, under Abraham, were split 2,000 years ago when a man named Jesus arrived, and again 1,500 years ago when a man named Muhammad arrived. The two largest religions of our modern day - Christianity and Islam - were born.
All this happened 1,000+ years before arriving at the year 1804, when the clock ticked over to one billion.
Only 123 years later, in 1927, we were at two billion.
We'd had our first "World War". Cars and planes were an incredible new invention, only a decade or two old. Electricity in homes, and recordings of music, and dial up telephone, were available in densely populated areas. It was not until 1928 that a game changer, the anti-biotic penicillin, was created.
Yes, it was a very different world in 1927. Radio, photography, printing and silent movies were available. True, the very first talking picture was made in 1927, but television was yet to be invented, and YouTube or Zoom were absolute pure fantasy rubbish to any right-thinking person...
1960 ~ Three Billion
It took only 33 years, and another World War in between, but yes here we are with three billion people on the planet... And you definitely know someone who was alive in 1960 (it could even be you!) because hey, it's really not that long ago...
1974 ~ Four Billion
1987 ~ Five Billion
1999 ~ Six Billion
2012 ~ Seven Billion
2024 (?) ~ Eight Billion
What are we all doing here right now? What's going on?!?
