How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth (FULL) Hot Planet? - BBC Documentary. Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four. United Nations Population Fund "Add It Up" 1/29 Creative films explainers. The price of civilization | Video. Connecting Family Planning and the Environment: Interview With Robert Engelman, Worldwatch Institute. 7 billion? It’s time to talk | 7 billion: What to expect when you’re expanding—a special series. The subject of population — like sex, politics, and religion — elicits such strong opinions that people often go out of their way to avoid talking about it. That’s led many to believe that population growth is no longer a valid concern, but if you’re worried about people, posterity, or the planet, it’s time to talk.
On Oct. 31, world population will cross the 7 billion mark. There’s nothing particularly significant about that number. It’s just a milestone, but it’s also an opportunity for reflection and recalibration. A lot has happened since world population crossed the 6 billion mark in 1999. Twelve years ago, when world population reached 6 billion, the human prospect looked immeasurably brighter than it does today. Read more on population. There always have been compelling reasons for making family-planning services and reproductive-health services more widely available to women in the developing world.
The Earth’s Seven Billionth Human Inhabitant Is Here. Are We Ready? The Earth’s Seven Billionth Human Inhabitant Is Here. Are We Ready? | October 25, 2011 One week from today, the United Nations estimates, the world’s population will reach seven billion. Because censuses are infrequent and incomplete, no one knows the precise date — the US Census Bureau puts it somewhere next March — but there can be no doubt that humanity is approaching a milestone. The first billion people accumulated over a leisurely interval, from the origins of humans hundreds of thousands of years ago to the early 1800s. Can the earth support seven billion now, and the three billion expected to be added by the end of this century?
For some in the West, the greatest challenge is to shake off, at last, the view that large and growing numbers of people represent power and prosperity. This view was fostered over millenniums, by the pronatalism of the Hebrew Bible, the Roman Empire, the Catholic Church and Arab thinkers like Ibn Khaldun. But there is plenty of bad news, too. {*style:<i>