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World Population Tops 6.5 Billion

I was reading this article on Friday, but waited to post it today because now our earth is over 6.5 billion people. According to the article, we hit 6.5 billion (estimate) at 7:16p.m. on Saturday night. Of course there's no possible way to hit 6.5 billion even because according to the article about 4 people are born every second. This article outlines some of the causes of our continuing rise in population and how different areas of the world have different factors that relate to how many people are born there. Our textbook says that 90% of the world's population is growing in developing countries. Some interesting numbers that I was able to pick out was that our earth is now 3.5 times more populated than it was in 1900 and we are expected to add 3 billion people to the world by the year 2050. By that time we will be getting into our 60's. The article shows a nice graph on how the population trend was in the past and how it should continue into the the future. The article did cite that one thing that hasn't changed is that the world is growing in areas that it can least afford to grow. I think now is the time to begin planning for this population increase because our earth will need to make accomadations for this.

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posted by Kevin Hurd @ 2/26/2006 12:46:00 PM