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For those who missed it in yesterday’s email, the global population is expected to cross 8 billion sometime today. Though, like a subway car approaching its next stop, overall growth keeps slowing down.
🚶♂️⬅️🦍 Humans, a history: It took over two million years for the human population to reach one billion, and only 207 years more to grow to 7 billion. This population explosion was driven by a reduction in child mortality, as well as improvements in food production, sanitation, and medicine.
🤔 So, where do we go from here?... The global population is expected to virtually stop growing by the end of this century for the first time in modern history, due in large part to falling fertility rates. Birth rates are dropping in many European countries, as well as in the US and China, according to a Pew Research analysis of UN data.
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🌎 Ukraine's military officially recaptured the southern port city of Kherson after 8+ months of Russian occupation, China eased some 'Zero-Covid' measures, and the Bucs beat the Seahawks in the NFL's 1st-ever game in Germany.
🌎 President Biden will sit down with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday for their first in-person meeting as leaders, the Taliban has banned all women from parks and gyms, and an archaeologist who’s been searching for Cleopatra’s tomb for nearly two decades believes she’s made a key breakthrough.
🌎 London Underground workers plan to hold a 24-hour strike today that'll halt virtually all metro train services, the oldest known sentence was discovered on the side of an ivory lice comb in Israel, and Germany blocked a Chinese-owned firm from acquiring a domestic chip company over national security concerns.
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