And don't forget that shown is just the last couple of thousand of years - there are 4 more millions of years prior to this of slow growth (and some collapses) but it wouldn't even register on such a chart.

Ugh, I guess this is far off topic.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The average growth rate from 10,000 BCE to 1700 was just 0.04% per year.

Wow that's crazy to me. I had always envisioned humans steadily spreading and growing constantly. I had no idea that we were basically treading water for so long.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yeah, 4 million years of various "humanoid" species cohabiting & barely making it through (one big event wiping out the whole species - that's why are gave such a shallow gene pool & all look "identical" relative to difs in other species).

But the rapid growth was always unsustainable, the gens lived on natural wealth that they just took out of (into?) the economy way quicker than the replenishing cycle. But the difference between a million and a billon is unimaginable, that's why we can now witness the collapse (mass extinction event) within a generation.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Love the malthusianism. Why focus on person or life quality when you can terminate your thoughts with 'human bad'?

No need to ever fix or grow if just 'human bad'.