World Population Reaches 7 Billion Today

October 31st, 2011 - By Veronica Wells

Newborn Danica Camacho, the Philippines' symbolic seven billionth baby, as part of the United Nations' seven billion global population projection, lies on her mother's chest in the Fabella Maternity hospital in Manila, Oct. 31, 2011. (AP)

The world isn’t getting any bigger. Now, it’s just supporting more people than ever before. While on the one hand, it’s cause for celebration it’s also cause for alarm. This increase in population will exacerbate all the world’s existing problems, like poverty, clean drinking water, pollution etc.

Check out the extent of this problem in this interview with CBS’ Russ Mitchell below.

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  • Kayla

    this world has enough resources for everyone, it's just the greedy people in power who don't distribute them properly

  • Guest

    they are intelligent, interesting, good in bed and that's really about it.

    97% of them, men and woman tend to reveal who they really are by disrespecting their signifcant other.

    I wouldn't allow them to walk my dog………there'd be peanut butter everywhere!