Despite today people are living longer, healthier, and happier lives than ever before, there are still many problems that humanity should address. One of the most important of them is water inequality. While people in First World countries can very easily take fresh, clean water for granted, more than 800 million others in impoverished areas …
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Astronaut Honors Holocaust Remembrance Day from space with “Moon Landscape” drawing by Holocaust victim Petr Ginz
NASA Astronaut Andrew Jay “Drew” Feustel, who is currently living and working aboard the International Space Station, published a photo on his Twitter account with a replica of the “Moon Landscape” drawing by Holocaust victim Petr Ginz to honor Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). The replica of the painting was first flown in space by Ilan Ramon …
Here’s why saving more lives does not lead to overpopulation
The Earth is getting more crowded every single day. As of December 2017, the world population was estimated at 7.6 billion. It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion, and only 200 years to reach 7+ billion. The United Nations estimates it will further increase to 11.2 billion in the year 2100. …
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People today are living longer, healthier, and happier lives than ever before
In a video published by Bill Gates on his Youtube channel, originally titled “Humanity is fighting back against the Grim Reaper”, Steven Pinker, the Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, popular science author, and Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University explains why people today are living longer, healthier, and happier lives than ever before. …
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What would happen if humans became extinct?
In the last few thousand years, humans have had a powerful impact on Earth. Within a geological blink of an eye, we exploded out of Africa to colonize virtually every inhabitable space on the planet. We dammed the rivers, domesticated animals, deforested many areas, changed the chemistry of the atmosphere and the seas… the list …
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If 100 People Lived on Earth Today
If the population of the world was only 100 people, instead of 7.4 billion, while the statistics remain the same, what would today’s society look like? A video published by GOOD Magazine (produced and written by Gabriel Reilich, animation by Jake Infusino) answers that question.
Human Population Through Time (Video)
The Earth is getting more crowded every single day. As of 2021, the world population was estimated at 7.9 billion. Our planet is already overpopulated, and despite the growth of the population begun slowing, the situation will be worse: the United Nations estimates it will further increase to 11.2 billion in the year 2100. Here …
Top 10 City Facts
Since the Neolithic revolution, humanity is building cities. Here are the top ten amazing facts about cities all around the world.
Emma Morano, The Oldest Living Human
As of May 26, 2016, Emma Morano, a 116-Year-Old woman from Italy is the oldest living human in the world (currently the oldest living man is Yisrael Kristal, who is 113, an Auschwitz Survivor now Living in Israel). Update: Emma Morano has died on April 15, 2017, at the age of 117 years and 137 days.
