Population
Go to Climate Change Overview Understanding Global Warming Human Population and Energy The sheriff enforced Oct. 2019 the largest emergency evacuations in Santa Rosa as the Kincade Fire continued growing. Santa Rosa was hit hard by the Tubbs wildfire that destroyed thousands of homes and killed 22 people two years ago. A swarm of fires burned almost identical areas of Napa and Sonoma counties in September 1964, 53 years ago. Despite burning tens of thousands of acres, these fires did not cost any lives, partly because the area was less inhabited than it is now. There have always been wildfires in California, and nothing indicates things have changed - only the damage is growing with increasing population density. Current World Population is 7.741.000.000 with an annual growth rate of 68.000.000. This increases the impact of natural disasters often incorrectly interpreted as caused by increasing extreme weather. ...