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World population soon to hit the 7 billion mark ... will we survive?

KNKX Public Radio | By Tom Paulson
Published October 25, 2011 at 1:32 PM PDT
Pretty soon, joining the crowd may not be an option – it'll be crowds everywhere.
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Pretty soon, joining the crowd may not be an option – it'll be crowds everywhere.

Sometime around Halloween, we’re told, the world’s 7th billion living person will be born.

Whether you should celebrate this milestone, recoil in horror or shrug depends upon your perspective regarding global population growth.

Read more on Humanosphere.
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Public Health global developmentGlobal healthWorld population
Tom Paulson
The host of the Humanosphere community is Tom Paulson, who spent 22 years reporting on science and medicine at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Tom was one of the first daily news reporters to cover the topic of “global health” (a much-debated label which he discusses the merits of on the Humanosphere website).
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