If Halloween by itself wasn't frightening enough, this Oct. 31 has been set by U.N. demographers as the official day when the 7 billionth person will be born, as TIME says, "on a planet already strapped for resources."
No one knows where this 7 billionth person will "officially" be born, but TIME says he or she may be born in India, "which will be the world's most populous nation by 2030."
Halloween might be the appropriate day for this "sobering" event to happen, "a reminder of our planet's predicament," where, according to TIME, "there's a distinct whiff of panic and fear" around this event, especially since our population is increasing by 10,000 an hour and the U.N. median forecast is that we will have 9.3 billion people by 2050.
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