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World Population Expected To Hit 7 Billion In Late October

Posted by timothy on from the where-do-you-get-a-nice-malthus-mask? dept.

kkleiner writes "A new report documents the prodigious rate at which the world's population is growing. It was just 1999 when we reached 6 billion. And now within the next month or two we will have surpassed 7 billion. What does the continued increase in world population mean for humanity and for the the planet?"

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  1. Re:In related news by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's obviously not a question of whether we can support 7 billion people, since we basically are, but whether we can support the increasing growth rate.

    Increasing growth rate?

    Growth rate over this last billion was 1.3% per year.

    Growth rate over the immediately previous billion was 1.5% per year.

    When we went from three billion to four billion, population growth rate was 2.1% per year.

    Looks like a steadily declining growth rate to me....

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