Guardian: Next Monday, population experts predict that one of this year's 78 million new babies will be the planet's 7 billionth person. It's just 12 years since the 6 billionth was born, and only a little over two centuries ago that we reached the first billion.
In 1999, the Guardian asked the Indian-British novelist Salman Rushdie to write a letter to the 6 billionth child, in which he meditated on the role religion would play in their life:
There are those who say that the great wars of the new century......
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 26th, 2011
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