Population growth around the world is well documented by specialists and overpopulation worldwide is not a myth, but is a serious reality which too many people do not understand well. In the following 170 years our population has mushroomed and will reach 6 billion later this year. At the present rate, we'll reach 9 billion in another 30 years. Just because most of the world's population is being fed now is no reason to ignore these growing threats. Ninety percent of our world population growth occurs in the poorest places on earth, where people already suffer from poverty, starvation and civil strife.
Birthrates fall when a country becomes more stable economically.
500 million women worldwide want to limit their family size and improve their family health. Increased population causes food and land shortages, which cause overcrowding stresses, which cause greed, which causes wars. Increase in aging populations is due largely to a century of medical advances, and our balance of young and old will even out in a generation. Population specialists do not specifically target the poor of the Third World countries and no blame is placed. We face a tremendous challenge and here in our wealthy, stable country, we must work to save our planet from its burgeoning population.