The World Population is growing by over 200,000 people a day
The population of the world today is about 215,000 people larger than yesterday. The world population clock shows you in real time how fast it’s actually going. The development will put enormous pressure on Earth’s resources and we’ll need to find more sustainable ways of living. And fast!
World heading towards 5.6 billion consumers
If everyone lived like western consumers we would need 5 planets to support us. And the number of consumers is growing by the second. The consumer class will grow from 3.5 billion in 2017 to 5.6 billion by 2030. A “consumer” is defined as someone able to buy goods and services beyond the satisfaction of basic needs. Specifically someone having more than 10 USD a day to live on - also referred to as middle class.
We are consuming the future
If Earth’s history is compared to a calendar year, modern human life has existed for 37 minutes and we have used one third of Earth’s natural resources in the last 0.2 seconds.
