not yet spring --
the population at
6.5 billion
According to the US Census Bureau's estimate,
on Feb. 25 the world's population reached
6.5 billion. There is an ongoing countdown here:
(My apologies...the first link was the wrong one --
this is the one I was using)
world population clock
I wrote a haiku sequence about the event as it
struck me -- the image won't show properly on a blog:
6.5 billion
.
the population at
6.5 billion
According to the US Census Bureau's estimate,
on Feb. 25 the world's population reached
6.5 billion. There is an ongoing countdown here:
(My apologies...the first link was the wrong one --
this is the one I was using)
world population clock
I wrote a haiku sequence about the event as it
struck me -- the image won't show properly on a blog:
6.5 billion
.
posted by laryalee at 9:20 PM
3 Comments:
It's too bad that you real one can't be shown here -- it's great!
Like your haiku and image on the page of your own you sent us to.
The image seems to missing on the first link -- probably a glitch at their end.
I looked at the site that gave the figure and have to query how they can justify such a precise figure -- maybe in a small locality you get an exact census but in many places such statistics are often inaccurate -- who knows the precise death toll in large natural disasters.
OK maybe I'm just being petty -- the overall picture is accurate enough just not the perceived precision.
Thanks, Andrew..glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Gerald...that's an "oops!" on my part --
I put the wrong link in!
There are several such "clocks", with varying
figures, and I look on them as symbolic only...
some say the 6.5 billion figure was reached a
couple of years ago.
As an added note, the reason I included a 1940
figure is because that was the year I was born.
A history census is here:
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html
I still find it hard to believe!
:-)
Lary
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