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7 Billion Actions is a worldwide campaign established by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in 2011 to commemorate the world population milestone of 7 billion people. UNFPA is a United Nations organization that works on population and development issues, with an emphasis on reproductive health and gender equality .
Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population is a 2008 book by Matthew Connelly, an associate professor of history at Columbia University.. Efforts to control population have been controversial, and Connelly argues that "the road to controlling population growth in the 20th century was paved with good intentions and unpleasant policies that did not work".
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards .
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"The Nine Billion Names of God" is an epistolary science fiction/metafiction short story, by Carter Scholz. It was first published in 1984, in the anthology Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time .
The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism is a 2013 book by the English philosopher and humanist, A. C. Grayling, in which he counters the arguments for the existence of God, and puts forward humanism as an alternative to religion. Grayling is concerned with tone.
David Benatar argues that there is a crucial asymmetry between the good and the bad things, such as pleasure and pain: . 1. the presence of pain is bad; 2. the presence of pleasure is good;
7 billion or Seven billion may refer to: 7 Billion Actions, A campaign to commemorate the world's population reaching 7 billion; 7 Billion Needles, A Japanese manga; 7 Billion Others, A video series by Yann Arthus-Bertrand; Day of Seven Billion, the day when the world's population reached 7 billion; 7 000 000 000, a 2021 rock album by Hurd