(July 26, 2013 at 6:03 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: I tend towards this prediction as well. While it's hard to estimate the carrying capacity of earth, I'm on the side that thinks we're way, way over the capacity.
I don't think we'll die out as a result, but definitely a drop in population growth if not population itself. When people get desperate there'll be more wars, famine. Not to mention global warming and extreme weather patterns. Hm, that's starting to sound a little apocalyptic.
The thing with over population is that it won't make our species go extinct, it'll just make a population reduction (through war or famine) mandatory at some point if we don't get population under control. Life on earth is going to get a lot shittier for most people.