7 Billion People

10 Countries With the Largest Projected Population Growth: American Exceptionalism

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.01.2012

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Howard Steven Friedman

The US population is wealthier, older, less fertile and more influenced by immigration than the other countries projected to experience major population growth, so why is the U.S. population is expected to grow much more than other wealthy countries?

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Education Is the Answer to Sustainable Development

Kazuhiko Takemoto | Posted 01.21.2012

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Kazuhiko Takemoto

Changing behaviors now will benefit the rights, health and well-being of future generations to come. It is our shared responsibility to make sure this happens.

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Empowering Women for Sustainability

Racheal Yeager | Posted 01.11.2012

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Racheal Yeager

In discussions about the seven billionth person, women's empowerment must be top of mind. Women's empowerment is important to both global population growth and social and environmental sustainability.

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Occupy The World

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 01.06.2012

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Christy Turlington Burns

If we truly value humanity, life and all that it represents in its highest form, then we need to do all that we can to promote quality of life over the quantity of life.

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How to Feed 7 Billion and Counting

Mark Tercek | Posted 01.02.2012

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Mark Tercek

Where others saw Mexican peasant farmers struggling with poor harvests and diseased crops -- not an attractive business opportunity -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug saw not problems, but potential.

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Seven: A Lucky Number?

Richard Attias | Posted 01.01.2012

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Richard Attias

Yesterday the world's population officially hit seven billion. Seven is a suggestive figure. In many cultures it is lucky -- in France, a cat has seven lives. Shakespeare said there were "seven ages of man" and seven is apparently the ideal number of hours of sleep a person needs.

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A Letter to #7,000,000,000

M. Sanjayan | Posted 12.31.2011

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M. Sanjayan

Planet Earth is the only home we have ever known, and it's likely to remain that way for a very, very long time. It's an inaccessible universe and we, your ancestors, have poked some big holes in this shared life raft. It's deflating fast!

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Meet Our 7 Billionth Babies!

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.31.2011

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As the world population reached 7 billion on Monday, the U.N. celebrated by nominating a series of symbolic babies to represent the milestone. Mee...

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7-Billionth Babies Celebrated Worldwide

AP | JON GAMBRELL | Posted 12.30.2011

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LAGOS, Nigeria — One South African mother, just 19, named her newborn "Enough" and shrugged off a nurse who questioned whether she was old enoug...

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People and the Planet: The World at 7 Billion

Carl Pope | Posted 12.28.2011

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Carl Pope

While many may assume the environmental and reproductive health movements have divergent agendas -- the health of the planet vs. the health of the people -- we agree on one very simple principle: everyone is entitled to a set of fundamental human rights.

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World Population To Hit 7 Billion By 2012

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 11.17.2011

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WASHINGTON — The world's population will reach 7 billion in 2012, even as the global community struggles to satisfy its appetite for natural res...

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