[Fammaden]

Have any overpopulation scares or predictions actually come anywhere close to true? Weren't academic experts back in the 1970's predicting massive famine, rationing, and resource war by this point in the new millennium? Yet here you are trying to tell me that in a mere 40 years there will be a domino effect of...something bad. I imagine if China and India really continue to drive demand higher and higher that alternatives and/or new tech/exploration for oil reserves will somehow find a way to overcome the things that hold them back traditionally.

Or we are probably all going to starve to death if we don't stop using demon oil and encourage the state to forcibly sterilize poor people. That answer is more fun and certainly gets more attention, funding, grants, departmental budget considerations...you know, all the things that made us so successful as a species in the first place?