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Old 31-12-2011, 01:04 AM #5
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Originally Posted by Samuel. View Post
I thought the increase was slowing down? Obviously by not a lot. Can't begin to fathom what impact a billion increase every 20 years will have on the planet.

Slightly related; In Googling news stories about the population reaching 7 billion, I found this from the beeb:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

When you were born, you were the:
5,430,982,871st

What a boring number.
It is slowing down, it will stop jumping by a billion each decade
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