Let's drink to the eight thousand million

[Starman]

Tomorrow.

Media Advisory: As world population approaches 8 billion people, UN calls for collective actions to protect people and planet - United Nations Sustainable Development

 

[TigerVols]

It's the drinking that led to most of that number, amirite?

 

[Twirling Time]

I tried posting this news and the website wouldn't let me.

Demographers estimate that 109 billion humans have ever lived, and when you throw in the 8 billion alive today that makes 117 billion.

How Many Humans Have Ever Lived?

 

[maumann]

I tried posting this news and the website wouldn't let me.

Demographers estimate that 109 billion humans have ever lived, and when you throw in the 8 billion alive today that makes 117 billion.

How Many Humans Have Ever Lived?

I've seen that representation and hate that I'm a lot closer to falling through the hourglass than I want to be. But I'll have a lot of company.

 

[cjericho]

Not that many in the US