World POPClock Projection [http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popclockworld.html]

"According to the International Programs Center, U.S. Census Bureau, the total population of the World, projected to 12/07/10, is 6,886,357,333.

"According to the current estimates, the world population reached 6 billion in 1999 and the new projections indicate that the 7 billion marker will be reached in 2012." [http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/popwnote.html]

This is truly quite amusing...

In recent years, they were projecting we would reach 7 billion people by October 2009!!

Now, it's been delayed until 2012...

Do you remember in the 1970s when the population controllers were jumping around saying we'd have 20 billion people on earth by now, and that we would all starve to death?...

Perhaps it's TIME to recognize that the World Population REALLY IS SLOWING DOWN DRAMATICALLY...

No longer need we worry about a "population explosion"... Now we just need to worry about a "population implosion"...

(They need a clock to show how many people are DYING every day.  Now, THAT would be sobering...)