Contrary to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claims that a population collapse is looming, we’re not going to run out of humans any time soon. Thanks largely to Africa, the UN predicts the planet will grow its headcount from 8-billion now to about 10-billion by 2050 — an increase of 25%.

That’s a lot of mouths to feed. ..

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