If global population growth is 1.3% per annum, this means the size of the global population doubles every (70 divided by 1.3) 53 years. That's called the doubling time. That mean 6 billion people on planet earth in year 2000 becomes 12 billion people in year 2053.
That means cities like Hong Kong, New York, London ... etc. will double in size, which means twice the food, resources, consumption, power, garbage, and transport in 53 years. -- It means more than double the complexity.
It mean that for every 1 power station now, there needs to be 2 by then.
This also means that what took us hundreds if not thousands of years to psychologically and physiologically adapt to, we have to do in just 53 years.
Exponential growth changes everything and we're just not noticing it.
The guys planning the roads are not seeing it. The politicians are definitely not seeing it. We're waiting for others to say, hey! there's a monumental challenge storming toward us.
But they're just not seeing it.
And we can't understand a problem or challenge we can't see, and we most certainly can't solve a problem we can't understand.
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