Planet's Population to hit 6.5 billion

Livescience.com has calculated that the world's population will hit 6.5 billion this Saturday. While I think this statistic is irrelevant to daily life, I found the terminology used in the article quite biased:

A population milestone is about to be set on this jam-packed planet.

On Saturday, Feb. 25, at 7:16 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, the population here on this good Earth is projected to hit 6.5 billion people.

"This jam-packed planet"? Our planet is far from jam-packed. According to the National Center for Policy Analysis:

If the entire population of the world were put into the land area of Texas, each person would have an area equal to the floor space of a typical U.S. home and the population density of Texas would be about the same as Paris, France.

Doesn't sound too jam-packed to me. In fact, world population numbers are often inflated for the purpose of instituting population control programs. Pierre Chaunu, professor emeritus of the Sorbonne and member of the French Academy, says that African population figures are inflated, he doubts China's figures, and notes that in the former USSR, where there is one live birth for every 7 abortions, 292 million people have never existed. Then there's the 80-120 million killed under communism who haven't been officially recognised as being not part of their countries' population statistics.

So why the population explosion scare? Chaunu says the international agencies have to justify the huge sums spent on imposing authoritarian birth control programmes in many countries. So they claim imminent danger for the planet through 'over-population'. He also indicated that a "certain number of North American experts play with fear: fear of invasion and asphyxiation by the citizens of the third world." In plain English, they're playing the race card: there's not too many people, just too many of THEM