World System (-20000BC - 0BC) Temperature and Malthusian Controllers
This Page is UNDER CONSTRUCTION. From the 0-2000 AD Data (below), we might predict that data from the BC period would (1) show little growth, (2) show no technological change, and (3) be controller by Malthusian dynamics. The problem is testing these hypotheses. I have developed a WBC Model (see below) for the variables Population ( N ), Production ( Q ) and Global Temperature ( T ) using available data and a number of assumptions. Notes World Population the total number of humans currently alive. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded 8 billion (8,000,000,000) on November 15, 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 218 more years from there to reach 8 billion. As of 2026, the world population is approximately 8.3 billion. However, this figure is only a very rough approximation World Production also known as gros...