Sometimes real time information provided at the click of a mouse over the Internet can be scary.  I'm not saying we haven't alwasys known population was growing rapidly but now you can see it before your very eyes.

Now start thinking of juxtaposing this metric against many other counters, graphs and clocks that can be found on the Internet. Oil consumption. Arable land. Fresh water consumption. You get the idea.

This population counter made me think of the famous line at the end of the Charlton Heston movie depicting an overpopulated world, Soylent Green.

At the end of the film a wounded Heston shouts out "Soylent Green is made out of people."

You can watch that scene here until YouTube takes it down.