Don't worry, there aren't 7 billion people in the world, only 7 thousand million.
7 billion = 7,000,000,000,000.
Just thought you'd like to know.

Thank the good Lord...this honor goes to the Philippines Islands. The Philippines Islands is an excellent location for Western men, who are single....particularly men from the U.S. and from the Canada....to locate and marry a loving and faithful fiance. Filipinas become much better wives than the typical women from the U.S. and from the Canada. They remain loyal, faithful, and loving to their husbands....even if he is poor and has a small penis. Most wives and girlfriends of the U.S. and of the Canada...look for the NEXT man who has MORE money, MORE property, better looks, and with a bigger penis...than their husbands and boy friends. The deciding factor is THIS...there are many more women than men at the Philippines islands. Not like the U.S. and the Canada....where there are many more men than women....which is the reason why women there are spoiled, arrogant, full of feminine pride... and very choosy...as to the most wealthy and the best looking of the men, to date and marry. In fact...some men from the U.S., many from the California...some men from.the Canada, and some men from the Europe...are enlightened...and had already married...or they are looking for... fiances from the Philippines Islands. Amen and halelujah.

Too bad we can't say the same for Ivory Billed Woodpeckers, or other extinct species.

Let's worry more about pro life issues...... Obviously we don't have enough people?

There is no way to know if this kid was the 7 billionth child, waste of an article.

To the 7 billionth new ones,
Welcome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ip9d3TNYso

The population is already out of hand. I just saw the Australian parents of the seven billionth child on television. They were ecstatic. Australians seem to want more people to populate their land. What they don't seem to realize is that every child leaves a carbon footprint.
Freshwater is getting more scarce. Arable land, 10 to 20% of the planet's land mass, is disappearing through erosion at the rate of tens of thousands of square miles per year. According to research at Oregon State University, the average American mother leaves a carbon footprint of 450 years per child. This is a disaster for climate change.
Organizations and individuals have been warning us about the dangers of overpopulation. A little over a year ago ScienceDaily noted that it was the major world problem-- with climate change second. It is certainly recommended that people familiarize themselves with all of the problems of overpopulation. The free websites at overpopulation.org, which keeps us current on news of the problem, and the free e-book series "And Gulliver Returns" --In Search of Utopia-- (http://andgulliverreturns.info) that not only goes into the details of the problem but also explains the ethical and psychological barriers to changing people's behavior, are must reads.
Business interests want more customers, political interests want more workers to support the welfare systems and more warriors, and religions need more souls to save. We can't see the cliff as we follow our lemming-like brothers into oblivion.

Don't worry this will all be fix by the year 2012 when the earth is coming to the end. Then the earth can start over with animals ruling it once more and humans cease to exist and stop polluting the earth.

when i read the headline i thought Octomom was at it again

So between my birthday and my Dad's the population increased by a billion. But between my birthday and my nephew's, it' incresed by 3 billion. This can't be good.

"I can't believe she is the world's seventh billion."

You're very right to be skeptical, mom: she's only got about a 1 in a hundred thousand chance of being the 7 billionth.

This is scary... Earth can not support that many people... And there is no strategy on what to do... Soon may be too late and we will have to fight to protect our resources including drinking water!

Right now only the Chinese seem capable of understand­ing the seriousnes­s of the over population issue.

Eventually the rest of us may realize their one child per family edict was farsighted­, not blasphemou­s