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The United Nations says today symbolically marks the moment when the  world’s population reaches 7 billion. A little more than two centuries  ago, the global population was 1 billion. How did it grow so big so  fast? With the help of a sound montage and video, it gets a little  easier to see how the Earth can produce that kind of a crowd.
Watch our video: 7 Billion: How Did We Get So Big So Fast
Photo: Adam Cole, Maggie Starbard / NPR

Exponential growth:  a scary thing
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    What an interesting illustration of the population growth. Sickk video.
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