Comment on Why it is important not to have childrenComments−jakeogh13y"The human population is expected to grow by 2 or 3 billion by 2050"That is the UN's low estimate.The median UN human population projection estimates that we peak at 10 billion people around 2100.Chart at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe (I wont pretend wikipedia is a source, the chart could be completely wroing, I have not crunched the numbers at http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/unpp/panel_population.htm myself)In my personal experience, often when discussing war people will resort to the "there are too many people" excuse if I first convince then that other justifications to kill are invalid.There is an organization that argues the other side of Stallman's reasoning: http://overpopulationisamyth.com/category/categories/pop101
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"The human population is expected to grow by 2 or 3 billion by 2050"
That is the UN's low estimate.
The median UN human population projection estimates that we peak at 10 billion people around 2100.
Chart at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe (I wont pretend wikipedia is a source, the chart could be completely wroing, I have not crunched the numbers at http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/unpp/panel_population.htm myself)
In my personal experience, often when discussing war people will resort to the "there are too many people" excuse if I first convince then that other justifications to kill are invalid.
There is an organization that argues the other side of Stallman's reasoning: http://overpopulationisamyth.com/category/categories/pop101