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You just gotta love the cool infographics from NPR productions, and no, this wasn't for a special on cocktails.  7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast? is a clever vid that uses coloured liquids to help us visualise the growing population rates of different continents and regions.  As you can guess, higher birth rates means faster liquid intake, while modern advances in medicine and technology mean slower death rates as show by reduced liquids dripping out the bottom.

World population growth

The U.N. estimates that the world’s population will pass the 7 billion mark on Monday. [Oct 31st, 2011]

As NPR’s Adam Cole reports, it was just over two centuries ago that the global population was 1 billion — in 1804. But better medicine and improved agriculture resulted in higher life expectancy for children, dramatically increasing the world population.

Estimated world population in billions


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postheadericon Borrowing the Earth from our Childen

How vain and selfish it would be to bring another child into this world! If you don't agree, fight against your instincts and inculcation, and allow your humanity to see the situation.

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