>> It is not impossible. It is going to happen and it is unavoidable. Based on history it hasn't happened. How do you know it's going to? >>The alternative is

>> It is not impossible. It is going to happen and it is unavoidable. Based on history it hasn't happened. How do you know it's going to? >>The alternative is to keep pushing for an ever growing population and to end up in Soylent Green / Blade Runner. That is absolutely not the only alternative. One would be to have a stable population at the current size. Another on would be decreasing population slowly and not as drastically as it will happen in Korea. A third one would be growing it slowly. The fourth one would be oscillating around the current size, etc.