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World almost certain to endure record hot year by 2030, UN warns
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This is pretty close, and it is true that the population has been growing by about the same amount of people per year since the 1950's. But the same amount of people means decreasing percentage, and that means slower.
But another significant factor is that in the industrialized world the growth had already almost completely stopped in the 50's.
Now the growth is beginning to decrease in Asia, and the expectation is that after 2050 the growth will be only on Africa.
pewresearch: worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century
Kind of true, but it definitely began to be in the 60's in western democracies. other countries were a bit later, typically the priority of the environment follows when the economy reaches a certain level, where the balance between environment and more economy begin to shift.
Problem is that with the global environment, some countries like especially USA don't give a shit. Despite they have contributed more to the problem than any other country in the world.
It's odd to bring percentages into it as the other factors of the equation aren't growing at the same rate. In fact, they are decreasing.
The absolute number of people continues to increase steadily, consuming more and more and more of the finite resources we have.
There are more humans on this planet today than have ever been on this planet in the past, and the same will be true for as long as our projections can reliably predict, and we have no intention to reduce that number.
I don't think the word "slow" has any place in describing this growth unless one wishes to deliberately obfuscate it by using an exponential scale.
You obviously didn't look at the link I provided, and no the declining percentage will eventually make it slow down. Zero percent is obviously zero, and no it's not strange to bring that in, because it's math.