Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today

suso writes ""The estimated population of the world will pass 6,666,666,666 today. No doubt an interesting number for people everywhere (not referring to any religion connotations). 5,555,555,555 was passed about 14 years ago. You may not realize that only 80 years ago, the population of the Earth was only around 2 billion. This shows how the population of the world has increased at an alarming rate in recent times, although the growth rate is almost half what it was at its peak in 1963, when it was 2.2%. Unrelated but also an interesting coincidence, the estimated number of available IPv4 addresses is getting very close to 666,666,666. It should cross over today as well.""

Comments

Re:How do they know? What about Burma?

[timmarhy]

rubbish. meat is high energy which is what we grave. vegetarian is never as satisfying.

Re:Planetary capabilities

[timmarhy]

your an idiot. the management is earths biological systems.

Re:How do they know? What about Burma?

[RightSaidFred99]

We also produce more by an order of magnitude. We're rich and they're poor for a reason. Look at birth rates in any place in the world. Now filter by education and income. Notice anything? Poor people breed like rats. I may have sympathy for an individual poor person as a human being, but the poor as a "class" I have no sympathy for. Having 5 kids who will each them go on to be poor and miserable and each have 2-8 more kids isn't exactly a good plan. I'm not going to feel guilty about someone being poor when their parents put them in that position and when they will more than likely put more people (their children) in that position. Fuck them.

In the end, like overabundant deer, there's going to be a mass die-off. The best thing the first world can do is the massive diffusion of effective birth control.