Why has the human population increased so much in the last few centuries, although we actually invented effective birth control methods?

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Why has the human population increased so much in the last few centuries, although we actually invented effective birth control methods?

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Answer 1

for most of history human population was kept in balance with it’s environment by the four horsemen; famine, plague, war and death.

In recent history food production has increased due to the green revolution.

Disease has decreased due to antibiotics, vaccines and water treatment.

and the post WW-II era has been remarkably peaceful.

Don’t worry, once the resources start running short we’ll go back to the old ways. The past 100 years was a short term anomaly.