I’m a tech geek. I love computers. I have since my first encounter with them, in the early 1970s. The reason is similar to why I like books so much: the intrinsic value is dense – they have a lot of information in a small volume. I admit that I have too many computers. They…
Category: Population
How many people are there on the Earth?
A climate researcher, Jacob Schewe, wrote an article about climate change and clean water resources, stating that there are six billion people on the Earth, now. This is published in The Conversation, which has a tagline of “Academic Rigour, Journalistic Flair”, on Dec. 23, 2013. This misstatement is in the second paragraph. It begs the…