Earth's Population To Hit 7 Billion This Year 461
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from the someone-alert-paul-ehrlich dept.
from the someone-alert-paul-ehrlich dept.
MikeChino writes "The UN Population Division just announced that the world's human population will hit 7 billion by Halloween 2011. The increase of one billion people in the past 12 years is worrying, especially since the global population only reached one billion total in the early 19th century. In the next 20 years, our population growth is predicted to rise to 8 billion people as our demand for food increases by 50 percent, water by 30 percent and energy by 50 percent." Not everyone finds it to be worrying per se.
Doug got it right a long time ago. (Score:5, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgDhDa4HHo [youtube.com]
OK, show me how (Score:4, Funny)
The world waits with baited breath for your solutions for increasing energy generation, food production, and water purification.
Oh and all this while we are about to run out of the millions of years of solar energy we just burned up in the form of fossil fuels.
Oh, you expected someone else to figure these things out. I see.
Re:OK, show me how (Score:2, Funny)
baited breath? eww...
Re:7 billion? No wait, 8? 9? (Score:2, Funny)