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> There are nearly 8 billion humans on Earth.

Yes, and there's roughly a quadrillion Cyclothone on Earth, a vertebrate fish with 13 species. [0]

That's 1,000,000 billion fish vs. 8 billion humans: the fish are winning the population game, and it's not even close.

Furthermore, human population projections cap us out around 15 billion in the next century because birth rates go down as population increases—we are naturally self-limiting, like every other species on earth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclothone



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