Dakatsu wrote:I dislike how fast the population of everywhere has grown.
The population of "everywhere" hasn't grown that fast. Some places are growing fast because they're going through a particular development phase that should be over in 20-50 years; other places already went through it and stabilized or have slightly declined.
The overpopulation nuts want you to think population will just keep growing, out of control, until we destroy the planet with too many humans. Suffice it to say, they don't understand the math or the biology they're talking about.
In nature, the only time you have a population actually grow totally out of control is if it does it in a single breeding season -- like the deer near the grand canyon a season after the wolf population got ganked. The deer basically tripled in population, destroyed their own food sources, and then died off in droves. If you stay away from that sort of scenario, the worst you get are minor population declines; populations tend to settle within a few percent of the "carrying capacity" of the environment within 3-4 generations. You can see it locally with humans too; the only reason Earth's population keeps rising is that carrying capacity in much of the third world has come up to near-first-world levels.
This is why I think space colonization would be an extremely wonderful thing
Burning millions of pounds of fossil fuels to put a single person into space is a GREAT way to solve pollution and large carbon footprints
