10-26-2011, 09:04 AM
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Raise Your Weapon
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World Population to reach 7 Billion
Good news for companies like Facebook I would imagine, probably not so good for the planet.
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Some time on Monday, the strident cries of a newborn child will echo around the world. For humankind, the birth will mark the arrival of a remarkable milestone: a world population of 7 billion.
Just where the baby will be born is a moot point, for in truth, the obvious challenges of a global headcount make this symbolic. Yet the arrival of the world's 7 billionth citizen on the designated day of October 31 is breathtaking.
For 50 years, the human species has defied the odds, growing at a rate once thought impossible. It took until 1959 to reach 3 billion.
Since then, the growth chart has soared, the last billion reached in only 12 years.
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