We already know what we need to do to curb population growth, it's just counterintuitive - http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth/ http://

We already know what we need to do to curb population growth, it's just counterintuitive - http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth/ http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth... . Essentially, people have lots of kids because they're expecting one or two to die. If you reduce child mortality, then they can stick with one or two kids without significant risk of ending up childless. And then in developed countries, we just need to massively improve energy efficiency. Like, instead of leaving all the lights on all night in offices "for security reasons", we put some disincentives on it and get people to put the extra money from the energy bill into some goddamn insurance.