7 Billion!

Holy Cow.

It is predicted that, today, the world's population will reach 7 billion people.  That's crazy!  I've been thinking about this a lot lately and what it could mean for the world.  I think a figure that huge is hard to fathom.  I stumbled across this series of videos that National Geographic created on the subject and they helped put things in perspective a little better...

I don't really have anything especially profound to say on this subject, other than the fact that I think it's important to be aware of and that while many of us won't feel an immediate impact, other people, half a world away, feel a very real impact as a result of our rapidly expanding population.  I think its effect is much more real than we could imagine, even if it's in an almost abstract sense...

Something to think about, I guess...