Seven billion!!!

And still not one person identical to the other... amazing.

 

Reminds me of....

A woman was stopped at a stoplight in a mini-van with a child strapped into each seat. A truck driver looked over and said "Lady, looks like you've just about screwed yourself out of a seat."

 

Any idea what it'll go down to when Pakistan nukes India (or vice versa)?



And check this if you want a bit of fun;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515


The population has almost doubled since I was born.

 

I guess I'm older than you. It's more than doubled since I've been here. And the whole time, we've been warned about exponential growth and finite resources. Obviously, we're not all thinking with our brains.

 

"7 billionth" babies celebrated worldwide"

What's to celebrate? I think the number speaks volumes of how humans are eventually doomed. There were 2.3 billion when I was born, and that was too many.

 

Except for the roughly 21 million identical twins that are around....

Apparently Africa has the highest incidence of identical twins (as well as in vitro fertilization techniques).

 

keep on truckin'!

 

Some people dismiss evolution as 'chance', which demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the process. Nature takes so many 'chances' that something is virtually guaranteed to survive, regardless of the prevailing conditions.

 

On that note, I just found out about an iPad app that National Geographic has released to celebrate 7 billion. See Explore 7 Billion By National Geographic - Trending In The App Store Now -- AppAdvice. It's free for a limited time.

iTunes URL in the story is busted. 7 Billion for iPad on the iTunes App Store is correct.

 

And I thought spiderman's comment sounded pretty innocent/sweet...

The World can easily support twice as many people as long as we keep fighting famine, expand into deserts, ensure clean drinking water and many other things for which I have frail hopes.

 

Until everyone can maintain a decent standard of life, it's time to stop population growth. It's well past time.

 

That's not a feasible solution as those with less are the ones who benefit the most from getting as many children as possible when every new pair of hands can beg and work for money.

 

Continuing to grow the population indefinitely is much less feasible. Sooner or later there will be a large scale problem(s) that prevent us from supporting the population of the Earth.

If it's a severe problem, we have already passed that point.

 

Has the entire population ever been fully supported? Those of us at the top of the food chain have little appreciation for how most of the world lives. When even our pampered and insulated way of life is threatened, the problems must be getting bigger. We'd like to think we're safe from the sixth extinction...

 

slowing/stopping population growth will put a crimp in the way we finance social security. we're already having problems supporting all the retiring boomers.

 

7 Billion - People
2 Million - Prii
...not sure where this logic is heading, except to say, the road is paved with good intentions.