This event has received a lot of publicity. We must realize that, although many advances have been made in this century, much more needs to be done in the realm of improving life for most of the planet s humanity. Once, during a boring class, I tried to write down all of the numbers from one to a thousand. I almost got as far as seven hundred, and lost interest. Six billion is a really BIG number.
Humans are amazingly successful and prolific.
In many ways that is good, since we are part of the human species, and it is nice to know that our species has been successful. Unfortunately, we have been so successful that other species are suffering. We are also using so many of the planet s resources that future generations will have to do without them. And, as you know, the environment becoming more and more polluted with human waste. Demographers keep track of things such as the total population on the planet.