Population Impact
In 1750 when the industrial age started there were about 600 million humans occupying less than 25% of the planet. In 1850 at the height of the smokestack industrial age the number of humans had doubled to about 1200 million occupying less than 50% of the planet.
In 1950 at the beginning of the automated, post-industrial mass-production age humans had again doubled to about 2400 million occupying less than 75% of the planet.
Today in 2004 some 6500 million humans increasing at about 80 million per year overcrowd the entire planet and cause ever more pollution, deforestation, natural habitat destruction, wildlife extermination/extinction, desertification, top soil erosion/degradation/salinization, climate change, global warming resulting in droughts, floods, landslides etc.
