The population Clock is SO wrong!?
ByQuestion by Jacob: The population Clock is SO wrong!?
Look, according to today’s clock, population goes up by about 3 people per second, that’s 259 200 per day, 94608000 per year. OK, I found 6,789,256,702 / 259 200 = 26193.12, meaning it took 26193 days to reach 6,789,256,702 people from 0 people. That is 71.76 years! so does that mean 71 years ago, around the WW2, in 1938.. no-one existed? Sure back then, the population was probably going up by 1 or 2 per second, I mean come on, 70 years ago isn’t much, I’m sure the population was increasing nearly as quickly as it does today. So say, judging by the pop clock, 100-200 years ago, there were no humans alive? I reckon their just trying to scare everyone, “Oh no, the population just went up by 99 just then! oh my god! what can we do, chop some unimportant persons heads off. Or how about we give them some vaccines to kill a few susceptible ones, say swine flu vaccines.” (don’t worry Mercury isn’t the only bad ingredient, their just distracting your attention from the worse ingredients). By the way that number 1938 seems to keep popping up at me everywhere. This was a pretty random post.. But I’m sick of the media, water level rose by 1.8mm this year. How do you know it wasn’t from the presence of more millions of more sea creatures, boats, e.t.c
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Answer by nicepuddin
According to TODAY’S clock the population may go up by 3 people per second. But that is not the rate the population was expanding in 1938. You say that at the rate of 3 people per second the population would go from 0 to 6 billion in 71 years, which is a huge increase. The rate that the population is expanding would also be this dramatically different than it was 71 years ago. So, in 1938 the clock would not be set at the 1 or 2 per second you estimated, but possibly 1 a minute, or even fewer.
The rate the population is expanding is obviously directly related to the size of the current population, i.e. the more people there are the quicker the population expands.
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1 Comments
June 10th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
The increase in population is exponential, not linear.
That means that its increasing at a faster rate all the time, so you can’t just divide the number the way you did to come up with 71 years (linear thinking).
The population is increasing faster today than it has ever in the past.
Fewer people are dying of disease or in childbirth or from other causes than in the past.
So more people means more people having more babies (have to make sure there are more of “us” than of “them” in the world).
Fewer babies dying, so more grow up to have babies of their own.
I have NO idea what the rest of your rant is about – what does “water level rose by 1.8mm this year” mean?