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What Growing Cities Can Mean For Children
More than half the world’s 7 billion people now live in cities or towns. More than 1 billion of them are children! What’s this going to look like by 2050? For one thing, 2 out of 3 people will live in urban areas. See which countries will have the most urban growth: http://www.unicef.org/sowc2012/urbanmap/
Short Films Are “In”!
Check out this article called: “WOSH - Small is beautiful” from Daazo.com that talks about the increasing number of short films and short film competitions around the globe. The article highlights the 7 Billion Actions online short film competition as well!
“When humanity unites small actions can have exponential results”
Check out this inspiring short video clip from SBS Australia, a partner of 7 Billion actions! http://www.tanyacreer.com/un-sbs-7-billion-actions-tvc/
“Our Human Footprint”
Read this article published in Fiji Times Online called, “Our human footprint.” The piece focuses on the upcoming, June 2012, United Nations conference Rio + 20; A meeting on Sustainable Development. The article also illustrates the particular role that population plays in the Rio + 20 conference.
On October 31st, when the world’s population reached 7 Billion people, Australian multiculutral broadcaster SBS launched an initiative called, “Seven Billion Stories and counting…” The campaign had a unique positive focus by examining the importance of the world’s seven billionth story, and highlighting humanity’s great potential. Check out SBS’s “The Seven Billionth Story” to see why TED recognized it as an “Ad Worth Spreading.”
7 Billion Images of Hope
Check out the front page of nytimes.com today for the article: Pictured A World at 7 Billion by Kerri Macdonald, which serves as a visual time capsule of our world at 7 Billion people.
Watch this video: Mother: Caring for 7 Billion
The world population has recently reached 7 Billion people, that’s 7 times what the population was just 200 years ago. This subject of population growth is the focus of the film Mother: Caring for 7 Billion.
The film follows Beth, a mother and a child’s rights activist, as she uncovers the complexities of the “population issue.”
Additionally, the film aims to highlight the fact “that overpopulation is merely a symptom of an even larger problem ‘A Domination System,’ that for most of human history has glorified the domination of man over nature, man over child, man over woman.”
Click here to see more information on the film!
Pulitzer Center on 7 Billion
Click here to see how reporters are covering the world at 7 Billion and various population issues.
Global Urbanization
Check out the article, Global Urbanization As Investment Opportunity, published in Trading Desk. The article begins by saying, “With an estimated 7 billion people and counting now on the planet, global demand for everything from electricity to mobile phones is likely to shoot up.” The article has unique insight from the chief market strategist at U.S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management’s Joseph Quinlan.
Quinlan asks important questions in the article such as, “Globally, what is going to happen when even a fraction of the 3.5 billion people still on the farm today move to the cities tomorrow?”
Watch this Video: 7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast?
This unique video, ‘7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast?’ produced by National Public Radio (NPR) illustrates the answer to how the world’s population grew so much in such a short period of time.
Help Create a Visual Time Capsule of Our World of 7 Billion
Lynsey Addario, A Delhi based Times freelancer, is taking pictures of some of the babies that were born on October 31st, the day the world population reached 7 Billion people.
Help Lynsey Addario show these babies what the world was like when they were born by submitting a photo you take. Read the full description of the project here.
Human Development Index 2011
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published its Human Development Index, ranking countries on their development issues, progress and policies. An article at the Huffington Post looks at the 10 lowest-ranking nations on this year’s index.
According to the article, this year’s study focuses on “the connection between development, equity and environmental sustainability.” Issues, which the UNDP argues, will hinder global development.
“We have a collective responsibility towards the least privileged among us today and in the future around the world—and a moral imperative to ensure that the present is not the enemy of the future,” UNDP director Helen Clark concludes.
To read the full report click here
For the Huffington Post article click here
Image Credit: Gates Foundation
“Seven Billion and Counting”
Today’s babies: ‘I wish them interesting lives’— Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin
In a interview with Emi Kolawole of the Washington Post, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, the fourth Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) provides interesting insights on what the 8th billion child can expect when he or she is born.
“I expect that we will be more interconnected,” he says, as the world will have “more vigor coming from young people.” He also mentioned the importance of social media, saying that we’ll “have a non-hierarchical information exchange system,” that would give us “a more transparent society.”
