The Nation - News from July 7, 1986
Sometime today and somewhere on Earth a newborn child will become the planet’s 5 billionth living resident and a “sobering symbol” of population growth, the president of the Population Institute said in Washington. “This particular baby,” Werner Fornos said, will be a reminder of the “shocking rapidity at which the world’s population is multiplying.” Another authority warned: “Five billion probably puts the world about at its carrying capacity.”
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