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What naturally occurring cleanser helps to remove pollutants from the atmosphere? Where does it come from? What other mechanisms also act to cleanse the atmosphere of pollutants?
 
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How has the global human population changed from prehistoric times to 1800? From 1800 to the present? What is projected over the next 50 years?
 
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Answer to Question 1

The hydroxyl radical, sea salts, and sunlight are natural cleansers of pollutants in the atmosphere. Ozone is the major source of the hydroxyl radical.

Answer to Question 2

From the dawn of human history until the beginning of the 1800s, population increased slowly and variably, with periodic setbacks. It was roughly 1830 before world population reached the 1 billion mark. By 1930, however, just 100 years later, the population had doubled to 2 billion. Barely 30 years later, in 1960, it reached 3 billion, and in only 15 more years, by 1975, it had climbed to 4 billion. Thus, the population doubled in just 45 years, from 1930 to 1975 . Then 12 years later, in 1987, it crossed the 5 billion mark In 1999, world population passed 6 billion, and it is currently growing at the rate of nearly 77 million people per year.
On the basis of current trends (which assumes a continued decline in fertility rates), the UN Population Division (UNPD) medium projection predicts that world population will pass the 7 billion mark in 2012, the 8 billion mark in 2024, and the 9 billion mark in 2047, and will reach 9.1 billion in 2050 . At that point, world population will still be increasing by 34 million per year.



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