Have you ever wondered how many people there are on this planet?

There are approximately 8 billion, 19 million, 303,358 people on Earth.

But that is a statistic that I am reading at 10.50am on Tuesday, February 28, 2023.

Already on this day, 165,968 people and counting have been born.

83,207 people and counting have died today.

That means that the population growth has surpassed 83,000 new people just this morning.

And the population growth for this year has surpassed 10,700,000 and it's only February.

We have seen a drastic population increase over the past several decades.

Since the 1960s, our population has grown by over 4 billion people.

The implications we have seen and will continue to see throughout our own lifetime and the

next will vary in all aspects of our lives.

The increase in people create an increased demand for food, water, housing, healthcare,

transportation, and jobs.

More people leads to the need for more deforestation, spikes in pollution, and wars fought over

depleting land and natural resources.

To put it in simple terms, humans are taking up so much space on the planet that we are

running out of room.

Land that we were once able to share with the wildlife around us, we are now invading

to make space for ourselves.

We are seeing more and more human wildlife conflict.

In many instances we have taken over and driven species out entirely.

In others, we have attempted to live amongst the largest and most dangerous apex predators

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