Earth Has Just Reached a Global Population of 8 Billion

The United Nations has officially declared November 15, 2022 as the "Day of Eight Billion" -- the day the Earth reached a population of eight billion inhabitants.Revealing that the last jump from seven to eight billion people took a mere 12 years, the UN stressed that with more people comes an increased responsibility to take care of the planet as land, clean water, food, endangered wildlife, and carbon emissions have to be accounted for on an even higher level as the average human lifespan cont...