Somewhere in the World today, October 31, 2011, a woman will huff and puff her way through labour producing the 7 billionth citizen of the world. Although the United Nations made this announcement one has to wonder just how they can possibly know this for a fact. With some countires still keeping inaccurate records, if any, it hardly seems logical.
However if it makes you think about the world, the mess it is in right now and the future, all well and good.
However if it makes you think about the world, the mess it is in right now and the future, all well and good.
( Officially it has been claimed that, Danica May Camacho, who was born just before midnight Sunday, October 2011 in Manila is number 7 billion. Welcome Danica.)
Rather than an increase in breeding though, it is more the fact that we are mostly living longer which is blamed or accredited with the figures. It depends upon your stance how you feel about so many people living on this planet of ours.
There are so many people starving across the World, hate is the watchword right now, civil unrest is on the increase, jobs are scarce, resources are low and the World economy looks doomed. Of course that dismal picture is a worst case scenario. As they say, where there is life there is hope. But we need to get a grip.
In the past disease and premature aging and death has limited the World population. Expecting not all children to survive into adulthood, most parents had a large family. Then of course there was War. The Two World Wars certainly levelled the population out along with the coming easy access to birth control products.
However, if it is to be believed that the rise in population is mainly down to longevity then we are in trouble. An increasingly aging population is often less productive than a younger one. Ultimately it will cost more.
Yet we know that in reality there is still wealth in the world. Look at the amount of money spent on destroying the planet with conflict and corporate greed. No matter what your stance on the Occupy protest movement it is hard to refute there claim that the World's wealth is in the hands of 1% of its population.
There is still hope for the planet if its population is prepared to make changes. If we carry on the same course it will be doomed. 7 billion may seem a staggering amount of people but what will the population be 20 years from now?
There are so many people starving across the World, hate is the watchword right now, civil unrest is on the increase, jobs are scarce, resources are low and the World economy looks doomed. Of course that dismal picture is a worst case scenario. As they say, where there is life there is hope. But we need to get a grip.
In the past disease and premature aging and death has limited the World population. Expecting not all children to survive into adulthood, most parents had a large family. Then of course there was War. The Two World Wars certainly levelled the population out along with the coming easy access to birth control products.
However, if it is to be believed that the rise in population is mainly down to longevity then we are in trouble. An increasingly aging population is often less productive than a younger one. Ultimately it will cost more.
Yet we know that in reality there is still wealth in the world. Look at the amount of money spent on destroying the planet with conflict and corporate greed. No matter what your stance on the Occupy protest movement it is hard to refute there claim that the World's wealth is in the hands of 1% of its population.
There is still hope for the planet if its population is prepared to make changes. If we carry on the same course it will be doomed. 7 billion may seem a staggering amount of people but what will the population be 20 years from now?
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