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Originally Posted by zamler
They were built slowly, population was much lower. It took 200,000 years for us to reach 1 billion, 200 years to get to 7.5 billion. Guess why?
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More people copulating and having children?
The vast majority of population growth has taken place in the developing or 3rd world where energy reliance has been based on traditional means (wood, biomass, and coal). Population growth is a really poor example of the contribution of fossil fuels to the world, as those countries and cultures that become more dependent on fossil fuels, and the economics it takes to be a consumer of those fuels, has actually proven to be an effective drag on population growth. Same with technology in general. Population growth is something unrelated to fossil fuel dependence.