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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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https://ourworldindata.org/air-pollution
https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation
https://ourworldindata.org/water-access#what-share-of-people-have-access-to-safe-drinking-water
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
 
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