Saturday- The Next Big Day
Wow! We just keep growing and growing.
A population milestone is about to be set on this jam-packed planet.When you consider that only 44 years ago in 1960 the population was 3 billion that is a big jump. There were less than a billion in 1900.
On Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7:16 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the population here on this good Earth is projected to hit 6.5 billion people.
Some six years from now, on Oct. 18, 2012 at 4:36 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Earth will be home to 7 billion folks.
On average, 4.4 people are born every second.
--Yahoo! News
It points out again the extreme stress that we put on our planet. It is a balanced system and I wonder how much longer it can put up with this strain.
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