The term is now out of favor with experts in the field, because it implies force - a negative thing to most. Control can mean governments controlling what should be the decisions and are the rights - of individuals, men trying to control women, industrialized nations trying to weaken the power of developing nations' increasing numbers, or whites trying to reduce the future numbers of people of color. Developing nations and the poor suspect that the wealthy may be referring to them. Besides, a newborn can represent not only a new mouth to feed but two new hands with which to build and a new mind to create the future. As the new wave is largely nonwhite, some whites fear that immigration will dilute their power.
Many immigrants migrate again, or return home when conditions change or they achieve their purposes.
Doomsday scenarios are pass . Improved health services have managed to keep the increased billions alive, though often in a deprived state. Growth will continue for at least another generation as the new millennium's record 1 billion teenagers enter their reproductive years. These terms stress not sheer population numbers but the broader vision of global well-being. It's not just political correctness to watch your population language.