Unrelenting population growth driving global warming, mass extinction

Mongabay
By Jeremy HanceJun 26, 2014, 12:44 pm147 pts
It took humans around 200,000 years to reach a global population of one billion. But, in two hundred years we've septupled that. In fact, over the last 40 years we've added an extra billion approximately every dozen years. And the United Nations predicts we'll add another four billion—for a total of 11…

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