{"id":10602,"date":"2011-11-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/01\/welcome-to-a-world-with-7-billion-humans\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:00:00","slug":"welcome-to-a-world-with-7-billion-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/11\/01\/welcome-to-a-world-with-7-billion-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to a World With 7 Billion Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/10\/31\/world\/7-billion\/?hpt=wo_c1\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA, October 31, 2011 (CNN): The global population is expected to reach 7 billion today &#8212; just 12 years after hitting 6 billion &#8212; and the milestone has many pondering the complex challenges associated with billions more people on Earth in the coming years. Some are also pondering something else: Just how big is 7 billion really? It&#8217;s a number that&#8217;s easy to underestimate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number is just outside of our usual everyday scale of thinking,&#8221; said Klaus Volpert, an associate professor of mathematics at Villanova University. &#8220;Once you go past a million, it becomes a blur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some different ways that might help you envision the enormousness of 7 billion:<\/p>\n<p>::: Seven billion seconds ago, the year was 1789. That was the year George Washington was inaugurated as the first U.S. president and Congress met for the very first time.<\/p>\n<p>::: Seven billion ants, at an average of 3 milligrams each, would weigh at least 23 tons (46,297 pounds).<\/p>\n<p>The world didn&#8217;t reach 1 billion inhabitants until 1800, according to the Population Reference Bureau, and it reached 2 billion in 1930. But with advances in modern medicine, in 1960 it reached 3 billion; in 1974, 4 billion; in 1987, 5 billion; and in 1999, only 12 years ago, it reached 6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. has estimated a population of 9.3 billion by 2050, and there is expected to be more than 10 billion people on Earth by 2100.<br \/>&#8220;We&#8217;re getting into more and more trouble the bigger the number gets,&#8221; said John Bongaarts, vice president of the Population Council, an international nonprofit group. &#8220;Every billion people we add makes life more difficult for everybody that&#8217;s already here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source USA, October 31, 2011 (CNN): The global population is expected to reach 7 billion today &#8212; just 12 years,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}