The article continues to say that we have been in a 'population boom' for decades now. In 1900, there were 1.6 billion in the world, and by 2000 there were more than 6 billion. By 2011, that number increased to about 7.2 billion as said in the article. My initial thoughts about this is that obviously having more people inhabit our earth means more pollution. I can see why having so many people can be harmful for our earth in more ways than one. I don't really think there is a fix for this, though, unless every country implements a one-child law like China did, but that seems a little unethical to me for some reason...
Although population keeps rising, I hope we figure a way to extend our resources to be able to keep up with more people on our earth. As the article says, advances in agriculture has helped us with this, and I hope it continues.
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/9/140920-population-11billion-demographics-anthropocene/#close
