class 10/22

Population of the settlement:

People on the land

èOver 7.5 billion people on this planet 

èIncreasing by over 73 million people per year

èAbout 200,000 per day

èAbout 8377 per hour  

èAbout 149 per hour 

èAbout 2.5 per second 

è90% of the population growth takes place in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, etc

**world population clock**

Population… by the billions:

Population	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Year	1804	1927	1960	1974	1987	1999	2011
Years elapsed	10,000+	123	33	14	13	12	12

èWhat happens when we start to run out of food and water?

èWhat happens when we start to run out of jobs for all of these people?

Today in class we mostly discussed how the population of our country and our world are drowning really fast. The population in china is over 3 billion more than the population that we have here in the united states. And this is even after they had child limits which means that each family is only allowed to have a certain amount of kids due to the size of the population.