Earth's Population To Hit 7 Billion This Year

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @12:27AM 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.

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Review your math.... by Mathinker · 2011-07-19 00:54 · Score: 5, Interesting

The second derivative of the world population has been negative for a while now. In other words, this will end with the population stabilizing at some level. Quite possibly (but, of course, not certainly) without any catastrophic natural or human-made disaster.
Probably not what you were thinking?