-Image generated by Microsoft Bing AI Below is the World Population Clock – it shows the number of people being born every minute. Although birth rates are slowing the global population is still growing at the rate of 80 million people per year. We'll come to why this matters in a moment, but let's first take a look at how we got here. How we got here As you can see from the following graph, until the Industrial Revolution in the C18 th populations remained small and static – under 1 billion globally, since the beginning of agriculture and were constantly kept in check by war, famine and disease. Many children died at birth or in infancy and many mothers died in childbirth which meant not only that fewer children reached reproductive age, but that although many women did indeed have large numbers of children, others did not live long enough to do so. With improvements in technology, medicine, diet, sanitation and income, people lived longer and popula...
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