How would the world be if it had only 1 billion humans?

There was one billion humans once. This was in about 1800, the official date for 1000000000 being 1804. Now at that time the population of the earth lived vastly, vastly, worse than we do now. read more

There was one billion humans once. This was in about 1800, the official date for 1,000,000,000 being 1804. Now at that time the population of the earth lived vastly, vastly, worse than we do now. read more

Political Instability & War: With most of the population of North America, Western Europe, Japan gone, the fragile world political scenario would break loose. The United Nations would be an immediate casualty. The people might have disappeared, but nukes and ICBM's wont vanish. The other 3.5 billion people could be endangererd. read more