(Click on Image to Enlarge)Seven Billion -- Joel E. Cohen, New York Times
ONE week from today, the United Nations estimates, the world’s population will reach seven billion. Because censuses are infrequent and incomplete, no one knows the precise date — the Census Bureau puts it somewhere next March — but there can be no doubt that humanity is approaching a milestone.
The first billion people accumulated over a leisurely interval, from the origins of humans hundreds of thousands of years ago to the early 1800s. Adding the second took another 120 or so years. Then, in the last 50 years, humanity more than doubled, surging from three billion in 1959 to four billion in 1974, five billion in 1987 and six billion in 1998. This rate of population increase has no historical precedent.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
How Do You Get to 7 Billion People? -- Carl Bialik, Wall Street Journal
Gaddafi's evil was never banal: it was utterly ridiculous -- Michael Weiss, The Telegraph
The Rights of a Deposed Despot: Libyans Don't Really Give a Hoot -- Vivienne Walt, Time
An ignominious end, a ghoulish celebration -- David Warren, The Ottawa Citizen
Confronting the threat from Iran -- Joel C. Rosenberg, The Washington Times
Iraqi Rivalries Spell End for U.S. Troops -- Ned Parker, Council on Foreign Relations
Obama's Iraq Failure -- James S. Robbins, Washington Times
Asia’s Giants Colliding at Sea? -- Jaswant Singh, Project Syndicate
Change in Saudi Arabia could come from conservative view -- Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, The National
Why Europe's Latest Debt-Crisis Agreement Could Be DOA -- Michael Schuman, Time
Answering Burma -- Washington Post editorial
Mosque And State -- Doyle McManus, L.A. Times
Irony Alert: WikiLeaks Thinks System It Attacks Should Help Finance It -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary
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