That's Hans Rosling explaining why population growth is not as big a problem as some people think it will be. It is still a problem, make no mistake. edit: th

That's Hans Rosling explaining why population growth is not as big a problem as some people think it will be. It is still a problem, make no mistake. edit: the problem comes from factors such as fresh water supplies, energy production, food production and transport. Once you start using more power to produce fresh water, you end up in a precarious highly industrialised future where the entire population becomes much more vulnerable to sabotage or incompetence. Even worse, most power production schemes of the scale required will also consume fresh water themselves. We need to find a way to maintain an acceptable quality of life with minimal energy expenditure, so that the entire population can live at that standard without destroying the planet in doing so.