Tag: Overpopulation

This Crowded Earth

November 30, 2012 By arne hendriks 1

This Crowded Earth by Robert Bloch is a 1958 novel set in a future where overpopulation has inspired science to create a small human race with the use of hormone therapy. The story starts in the late 1990’s when suicide, crime and accidents have increased steeply…

7.000.000.000

January 1, 2011 By arne hendriks 0

In 2011 the world population will reach 7 billion.  To put this into perspective; around 8.000 BC at the dawn of agriculture, the Earth’s population was perhaps 5 million. At the beginning of our calendar (0 AD) this had increased to around 200 million. During the Industrial…