What's your number? 7 Billion people now live here.

[Locut0s]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

Yes this would be VERY rough and the fact that they give you an exact number is ludicrous, we don't even know the exact number right now let alone at any previous point in history. Still it serves its purpose to put some of this in perspective.

Me: 4,596,461,115
Country: 34,135,583 life expectancy for Male 80.5

 

[rhino56]

it only lets you put 1910 as the oldest in, yet you are still over 1 billionth. stupid

 

[Sinsear]

And to think so many of them contribute absolutely nothing to society.

 

[Mike Gayner]

And to think so many of them contribute absolutely nothing to society.

And what's your contribution? And exactly what makes you believe that the purpose of life is "contribution to society", in whatever arbitrary sense you mean?

 

[Locut0s]

it only lets you put 1910 as the oldest in, yet you are still over 1 billionth. stupid

The global population is estimated to have hit 1 Billion back in 1805.

 

[Locut0s]

And what's your contribution? And exactly what makes you believe that the purpose of life is "contribution to society", in whatever arbitrary sense you mean?

That post of course.

 

[FoBoT]

And to think so many of them contribute absolutely nothing to society.

 

[silvan4now]

we are just idiots tbh;
i mean there is no food for your children and you still give birth to 3-4!
human kind=idiocracy

 

[Locut0s]

we are just idiots tbh;
i mean there is no food for your children and you still give birth to 3-4!
human kind=idiocracy

The biological and social urge / need to procreate is far stronger than you give it credit for. If you were born into abject poverty you would just take it for granted that that's the way life is. But you wouldn't necessarily stop wanting to have a relationship or sex or have a family. Raising kids in these conditions is indeed hell and yes it seems hopeless. One of the reasons they have 3 or 4 though is so that 1 will survive. Contrary to popular wisdom most kids even in the worst places don't starve to death, at least not quickly. Usually they die from disease. And even under these conditions yes people still want meaningful relationships and families.

It has been shown time and again the best way to lower birth rates is to raise education rates, particularly among women.

 

[zokudu]

Repost lemme go find the link.

Here you go: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2201754

 

[xSauronx]

7 billion eh....ok people, we can stop now.

 

[amdhunter]

When you were born, you were the:
4,067,958,438th
person alive on Earth
78,425,428,223rd

 

[ThatsABigOne]

I do not beleive the number that I have. I was born at a specific time on my birthday, not just the whole birthday...

Lets keep making babbies.

 

[Miramonti]

This planet is clearly in need of a few more World Wars...none of these crappy @ss regional conflicts.

 

[DesiPower]

Thanks to all the "life saving" drugs and "humanitarian work" in South Africa. I mean, common, after a while yo need to understand, if you keep saving everyone, one day earth will press the reset button and everyone will die...

... and then the hilarity of the news media reporting who is the 7billionth baby, Oh my god, we don't even know the exact number of bipeds on this earth...

 

[BrokenVisage]

It will be 8 billion before you know it, and if we make it far enough I suggest the 10 millionth child be groomed for world leader. No more buying and lying for power, time to make it completely fucking random.

 

[cronos]

When you were born, you were the: 3,955,683,334th person alive on Earth

 

[busydude]

Repost.

 

[Mike Gayner]

I love all the people exclaiming that people need to stop having children - our biological imperative. Meanwhile they're almost certainly going to have children themselves during their lifetime. These morons also fail to recognise that many modern nations also have falling birth rates and sometimes negative replacement rates.