I chose to make my graph the shape it is because I knew population started growing slowly and got faster from the video we watched in class about growing population so I started slow and got faster and faster with the growing population. When Ana told us that in 8,000 B.C.E there were 5 million people in the world it really changed the graph in my mind (because I had not started my dots on the graph). It changed how population would increase. In my mind I thought population would grow at a pretty even pace. But then when Ana told us I thought about it and it made sense because of tech people can live longer and babies are more healthy.
Jemma, this is a nice summary of the population explosion. It would be interesting to think about other changes you’d make to the graph after re-watching the video. Remember, it said it took until 1800 for us to reach our first billion. What would that look like?
http://www.prb.org/Multimedia/Video/2011/video-7-billion.aspx