In the October 24th issue of The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert commented on the world’s population, which the U.N. predicted would reach seven billion this week. “The question of how many people the earth can support over the long or even medium term remains, at this point, open,” she wrote. “7 Billion: How Your World Will Change,” an iPad app launched recently by National Geographic, attempts to answer the question, with photos, videos, interactive maps, and demographic profiles, and features like “Birth of a New Brazil” and “Rift in Paradise,” which explores the effects of population increase on Africa’s Albertine Rift. According to the app, nine billion people will inhabit the Earth by 2050. Read more at newyorker.com…
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I’m the deputy managing editor at strategy + business, a freelance editor at Belt, and the former web manager at The New Yorker. My writing and editing also has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent, the Observer, the Rumpus, the Cleveland Clinic Press, and Northern Ohio Live. Additionally, I was a founding team member of Maven, a healthcare app for women. I live in Brooklyn with my husband, the musician and writer Mike Errico, and our daughter. Follow me @sally_errico. View more posts