Benefits of the population explosion

A few years ago I began work on my second book titled, The Late Great United States. Eventually I had to stop, realizing I didn't actually believe much of what I was writing. However, there a few snippets worth retrieving. The following is one example.

Consider this: The world population in 1 AD was about 200 million. By 1000 AD it had grown by less than forty percent to 275 million. In 1750 the population had grown another 154 percent to 700 million. That’s when it happened.

The world’s inhabitants began to multiply exponentially. By 1900 there were 1.6 billion people and that grew to 6.1 billion in the year 2000. Of those, 800 million were added to our planet between 1990 and 2000. The ten-year growth alone was more than the entire world population of 1750.

I find it significant that the beginning of the population explosion preceded the industrial revolution of the 1800s. There is a direct correlation. The more people on the planet, the more advanced we become. The parallel is undeniable.

So how does the increase in population drive the updraft in technology? The answer is simple. Not only are there more people; there are more smart people. When the population doubles, the number of intelligent people also doubles.

In 2005 there were 128 million geniuses (people with IQs in the top 2 percentile.) That’s the equivalent of 64 percent of the entire world population in 1 AD. We live in a world of geniuses. (The rest of us are along for the ride.)

The population explosion produced a swell of intelligence that, in turn, engendered technological advances. The knowledge explosion was predicted by Daniel as one of two characteristics that would signal the era of the latter day Antiochus. “Many shall run to and fro,” he wrote “and knowledge shall be increased.”

Eric Schansberg's well researched article on eugenics is an excellent resource.
Read it here ►