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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
Good question. Right now, I believe the Earth is in a period of unsustainable population growth. By 2050, the world's population may have increased by another four billion people. By end of the century, the world population might double or triple.
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Unlikely to happen. The overpopulation scenario has been running since the early seventies with
Ehrlich et al and none of the dire projections have come about, infact the rate of increase is in decline. The Population Division of the United Nations has predicted (2004) that the human population will peak at about 2050 and subsequently decline and probably stabilise. Obviously it needs to be managed and climate variability will have an effect, but the human/biosphere interaction is complex and unlikely to lead to some gross and simplistic distortion.
