7 Billion People and Counting

Excellent article in the National Geographic about world population growth. The growth rate has slowed in countries that have achieved higher standards of living and education.


The world can accommodate this population growth. But our plan for the world must be to slow the rate of growth to zero.  It would be good to roll the human population back down to a much lower number if we hope to get the majority or all of humanity into a higher quality of life.


Read the article at:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/7-billion

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