World population projected to reach 7 billion in 2011 - CNN.com

It is hard to fathom what 7 billion people means. How much does the world population increase in a day? A week? A month? A year?

Read this, it will just blow you away. It is posed as a 'challenge' but the solution is posted at the bottom:

http://blogontheuniverse.org/2009/06/02/weekly-challenge-2-people-people-everywh...

Then think of the resources that need to be made available to provide basic needs.

Jeff Goldstein
Center Director
National Center for Earth and Space Science Education

sad to say,
but people need to start dying.

One article outlines the water shortage problems India is going through and the next one overpopulation. South central Asia and Africa are going to be subject to serious social problems more so than they now suffer from. While the United States will fight for access to oil the next really substancial regional wars will be fought over the rights to fresh water. While we in North America are home to the largest percentage of the worlds fresh water the destabization of other parts of the world in their quest for fresh water is going to put an incredible strain on all people. That is with the exception of the military industrial complex that will be all ready to profit on the wars that emerge to fill their coffers some more.
As the world becomes more populated it becomes smaller and as it becomes smaller we become more vulnerable to extremist who will stop at nothing in their causes. Rest assured many will blame the United States for problems we didn't start, and we will still be the subject of scorn from the have nots as we are the haves.

vizzzzzance, I believe that would be birth control.

Why do most people who claim to be conservative hate the idea of conserving anything?

delas78, that was a good movie. Had to watch it a couple of times to get the message.

The countries that reproduce the least (Japan, Denmark, Norway.....) are the countries that could probably produce/afford a vaccine.

The most overcrowded countries... probably not.

Let the conspiracy theories begin.

12 monkeys???

Save the planet, make less babies.

this is reality.and really all we can do is adopt,conserve,and pray.

The population hit 7 billion already. This happened two years ago. Am I the only one that remembers the big news story?

Well that disease better be pretty fucking beastly. The Black Plague wiped out around half a billion people, we should get three of those on order ASAP.

Oh god the current.com staffers are at it again with their shameless promotion of the overpopulation issue.

This is one of the reasons why mother nature is so smart, she'll decide how many of us us too much. Disease, and global weather will play a much bigger part than any of us will. She may even squeeze in an earthquake or two trying to shake the fleas off her skin. Fleas=people.

That's crazy. The world is pretty much already at full capacity, how many more people can the earth possibly hold? I do agree that the population will drop later on because of disease and war, but that's not any better.

Yay, I can't wait to have a world wide rave party with all my new friends!

Just to get a sense of the acceleration of human population, it took until 1830 to get to one billion hungry humans on the planet. By 1950, there were three billion; by 2000, six billion.
Currently, every second five people are born and two die, adding three people every second.
If you've noticed the staggering and accelerating destruction of precious resources, habitat, and other species on the planet, as well as the effects on human health on poisoning his its own environment, you might be able to deduce that massive overpopulation it is not only a significant problem, it is the problem.

There's enough for everyone. If only governments were not so greedy and selfish.

"We did it! We're number 1, we're number 1!!! ...planet that is."

"We did it! We're number 1, we're number 1!!! ...planet that is."

"We did it! We're number 1, we're number 1!!! ...planet that is."

More people, more food shortages, more draining the Earth of its resources.

Alex Jones will kill 5 billion with just his breath.

Alex Jones says the world population will be lowered to 1 billion by the New World Order way before 2011. Alex says Obama would love to personally strangle 4 billion people himself. Michelle will do another billion and the children will do 50 million each.

We can only hope that real population control will kick in sometime soon. But I do believe disease is going to change a lot of population counts soon bc_f.

7 Billion people cant be wrong.

The world is getting heavier all the time.