The Big Picture: A Hockey Stick for the Ages Imagine a graph that is flat for 99% of human history, then suddenly shoots up like a rocket. That is the story of our population. For millennia, growth was slower than a snail's pace. Then, in the last 200 years—a blink of an evolutionary eye—we exploded from 1 billion to over 8 billion.
We are the first generation to see the slowdown. The question is not "How can we stop growing?" but rather, "Can we manage a graceful landing into a stable, aging, multi-billion person world?" 8.1 trends in human population growth
That is the story of 8.1. And it's just beginning. The Big Picture: A Hockey Stick for the