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Re:Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’... by downrightmike on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:23AM (#30723445)
In the last 20 years, we've also added about four billion new people to the world, sitting at about 10b right now. 11b is the predicted max.
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Re:Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’... by dwpdwpdwpdwpdwp on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:31AM (#30723534)
The UN estimates that there are about 7.9 billion people, up from about 6 billion in 1999.

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population

https://www.unfpa.org/data/world-population-dashboard

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Re:Looming food shortages is the next ‘slow-moving disaster’... by hervature on Friday March 18, 2022 @11:32AM (#30723543)
In the last 20 years, we've also added about two billion new people to the world, sitting at about 8B right now. 10B is the predicted max [1].

There, fixed it for you.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

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