If you were born before 1970...

you have experienced something that never happened before in recorded history and will most likely never happen again;

the world's population has doubled in your lifetime.

I know I notice it, does anybody else?

 

I wasn't born before the 1970s. I wish I was I was born in the 90's.

Unfortunately it seems as if people are taking the lessons taught by the revolution of the 1960s and turning them into modern modern garbagio these days.

Man the acid's not even acid anymore.

 

I'm not sure. How do you notice it? I think you can only know this by being aware of statistics and research.
I mean, the population of certain nations has doubled before during their lifetime, I can imagine they might have noticed that increase much clearer.

 

Simply more people, more crowded in general.

Sure anyone can get an idea from statistics and research, but I'm talking about real life perceptions and implications.
Unfortunately Asmo, I fear you are too young to fully "get" what I am saying.
Don't want to sound like I'm being age prejudice, but it really is a matter of having lived through and experienced the rapid growth and accompanying attitudes/perceptions that I'm interested in from other members.

 

I noticed big citys are more congested than ever, but I've been so fucking rural lately I'm sure anywhere more crowded than where I live would cause me some distress.

Not-so-fun fact: half of the US population lives within 50 miles of the coast.

 

I have noticed with the degree of environmental change as native abundance is being challenged disturbed earth.

 

When I moved here 24 years ago if you wanted to drive to the big city (half hour drive) you did so through farm fields and woods and country settings. Over the years the farm fields have been replaced with shopping centers and new housing developments and there is very little nature left to view on the drive (which now takes 45 minutes to an hour).

 

theres more cars on the road than in the 7os.to many cars are'nt good for the enviroment.

 

It would be boring and repetitive if I started in on the changes I've seen(born 1939) and would take a book. So I won't even start.

 

whats the best changes you seen scratch ?

 

I guess communication, as in the net. And medical advances. Thanks fer' askin', Roamy.

 

medical advances are always a good thing.

 

it happened before when eve gave birth to cain and abel. duh.

 

I was born after 1970 but I’ve noticed it.

At first I thought I was just bumping into people on the street because they had their heads down staring at their iPhone but it’s clearly more than that – there are simply more people and brushing by people has become common place


Hotwater

 

Well, I do think it was equally if not more noticable in other times (depending on the location obviously). So, apparently in 1970 the word population doubled. But there were already a lot of people before.

 

I was born in the 80s but I've seen rapid population growth in my town in the last 20 years. Its ridiculously annoying in the suburbs but I do have a really lovely downtown area to enjoy now whereas when I was a child our downtown area was lame.

Of course this is due more to economic prosperity than world wide population growth.

 

What other times in recorded history has the world population doubled in one generation??



The world population was about 3.4 billion in 1970, in 2011-2012 it reached the 7 billion mark.
So if a person was born prior to 1970, they have lived and experienced this rapid increase.
As I said before, if you were born much after 1980, chances are that you don't have a good basis for comparison from personal experience to notice the differences due to greater numbers of people on the planet.

As has already been mentioned, one of the biggest changes I have seen over the last 40 years is there is a lot less "open space" and a lot more buildings and developed areas.
That is directly related to population numbers, which in turn translates to higher real estate prices. The more scarce space is, the more valuable it is.

 

dont think I experience as much in my 40yrs, as someone has that was born in 1920 and lived to their 40s.

911 wooptidoo..

And automobiles from the 60s to the present sucked..

 

It might not have been doubled during one generation before (but who knows for sure really, we only have relatively full accounts of a few centuries ) but I do think the increase in numbers and how noticable and how much impact it had on peoples life was equal if not bigger in other times. Like yes overall there was more open space in the late 1800/early 1900 but the industrialisation and growth of cities had a much larger impact on the people involved than (arguably) ever before.
I'm sorry if I was only to look at this from the perception of my own life but since I studied history I tend to make connections to other periods in time. In that way I do not think the doubling of population and the growth of cities made an unique impact on people living in the 20th century. Together with their own cultural and technological changes it was of course a unique time period with unique impact indeed, but I think a lot of people during the era of industrialisation for instance had an equally if not bigger change in outlook on life, the world and society and the size of their population!