(August 27, 2013 at 6:50 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(August 26, 2013 at 4:35 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I agree and it's obviously backed up statistically. However will the world kill itself through overpopulation or wars before everyone becomes sane?
The rate of population growth is slowing. Middle-of-the-road UN projection is that global population won't double again, it is expected to peak at around 9 or 10 billion and then start to decline very gradually for centuries. Whether we can survive the 10 billion mark remains to be seen.
That depends on whether the places where most of the new population growth is expected to occur, in Africa, South America, and India, is likely to gain power, wealth and influence to take resources commensurate with their population increase, or if they would be crushed under their population burden without being able to effect much of the rest of the world.
