What are problems of population growth?
I strongly disagree with the other answers. Overpopulation has been predicted as long as there have been academics, the most prominent of which was Thomas Malthus. These Malthusian theories have been wrong every time they have been put forward. This is because most of these theories are based on trend extrapolation, or assuming current trends continue. But current trends do not continue. As there come to be more people, it becomes more expensive to have children. If there is fewer food, land, diapers, air, etc. relative to the number of people in the world, they become more expensive, and people have incentive to have fewer children and/or use less of these goods. Either of these courses of action account for overpopulation. The other aspect of this is that people invent things, making society better able to use the earths resources accounting for their own and a vast number of other people’s use of the earths resources. This is how some societies manage to be prosperous despite having
