Today was 7 Billion Day. We unofficially officially now reside on this planet we call earth with 7 billion other humans. And that is a hell of a lot of people. The driving force behing the human population growth can be found in Africa, Asia and especially India. While the world is worried about oil prices and fossil fuels it might be better if we started worrying about how we are going to provide food and water for all those 7 billion mouths and the billions more to come in the coming decades. Bad family planning might be the killer of us all.
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Chinese 104-year-old twins Cao Xiaoqiao (R) and her elder sister Cao Daqiao look at each other on the outskirts of Shiqiaozi town in Zhucheng, Shandong province in this file picture, June 18, 2009. The world’s population will reach seven billion on 31 October 2011, according to projections by the United Nations,
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