7,000,000,000 Day

31 October 2011 marks a remarkable milestone in modern Human history. Why? According to a major United Nation report, The 7th Billion human was born on 31 October 2011 in the Philippines and it's a female. Her name: Danica May Camacho.

This baby girl is one of the few chosen to mark this unbelievable milestone in Modern Human history. According to statistics, this figure would actually be breached fours years earlier, if China did not implement their "One-Child" policy. It is really amazing to know how FAST us, humans, are multiplying ourselves, given the fact that, there were only about one billion people living on this Earth some two hundred years ago. Yes! You got that right. 1,000,000,000 people 200 years ago.

But there are several reasons which led to a sudden explosion of population on Earth but there is one main reason: TECHNOLOGY.

We cannot deny the fact that Technology has evolved so rapidly, that we almost forgotten that our forefathers were riding on horses as forms of transportation, writing letters as their only form of communication and using candles and camp-fire as their only source of light and warmth at night, some 200 years ago. The advancement in Technology has given humans vast improvements in many, many areas over the years. One of these areas is Medical field.

The report says the rise in average life expectancy - which has increased from 48 years in the 1950s to about 68 now - should be celebrated.

It says in the same period the fertility rate, which is the average number of children women have, has dropped by more than half, from 6.0 to 2.5.
It also notes that children are much less likely to die in infancy thanks to improvements in health care.

Another area is improvement in Information Technology (IT). With the Internet becoming more and more accessible to people, especially 3rd World Countries and many rural areas, families and people who were unable to afford education in the past, are able to receive better education, just with a click of a button. And with better knowledge, they are able to get themselves better paying jobs and improve their quality of life, thus living longer.

But nevertheless, we humans are just like any other animals on Earth, we will continue to grow, multiple and expand, so might as well be prepared for it, whether we like it or not...