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Humans have been banished from Earth false claim

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“Humans have been banished from Earth.”
False
Confidence: High Checked on October 5, 2026

Summary

Humans continue to inhabit Earth, with the global population projected to reach around 8.2 billion by mid‑2026 and to keep growing. No credible source reports that humanity has been expelled or removed from the planet.

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census.gov
  • World Population Day: July 11, 2026

    The world population reached 8 billion in 2023, and the IDB projects it will reach 8.2 billion in July 2026, 9 billion by 2039, 10 billion by 2060, and peak at 10.6 billion in 2092 before declining.

  • Population Clock: World

    Populations shown for the Most Populous Countries and on the world map are projected to July 1, 2026. To learn more about world population projections, go to Notes on the World Population Clock. To learn more about international trade data, go to Guide to Foreign Trade Statistics.

npr.org
politifact.com
halopedia.org
  • Banished - Faction - Halopedia, the Halo wiki

    Following the loss of their home planet, the Banished represented the largest surviving Jiralhanae military force under a single banner.[115] Atriox and his Banished force comprised of Jiralhanae, humans, Sangheili, Unggoy, Mgalekgolo and Kig-Yar would travel to Installation 07 where the Xalanyn species were secretly hidden and where the rogue Cortana presided.[74] Other Banished forces occupied the former human colony of Camber and took possession of several UNSC assets that had been left behind. They began to refit and repurpose the ruins into tools to serve their needs.[116] Before his departure, Escharum ordered Severan to destroy Earth in retaliation for the Razing of Oth Sonin.

en.wikipedia.org
  • Human extinction - Wikipedia

    Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. Oxford University Press. p. 224. ISBN · 978-0-19-954926-9. Although there are many non-human species – especially carnivores – that also cause a lot of suffering, humans have the unfortunate distinction of being the most destructive and harmful species on earth...

  • World population - Wikipedia

    It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded 8 billion (8,000,000,000) on November 15, 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 218 more years from there to reach 8 billion. As of 2026, the world population ...

  • Planet of the Humans - Wikipedia

    He also shows Gore in multiple ... State of Qatar, an oil and gas producer. Gibbs attends an Earth Day concert celebration in Washington, DC sponsored by Toyota, Citibank, and Caterpillar, where Dennis Hayes claims the entire event is run on solar energy....

350.org
  • Setting the Record Straight on 'Planet of the Humans' - 350

    On 21 April, on the eve of Earth Day, a video was posted on YouTube – a documentary released and promoted by Michael Moore. It appeared to support discredited ideas like “population control” as a primary response to the climate crisis. (An emphasis on population control is highly problematic, with some key scientists calling it “imperialist framing”).

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