"The human population is expected to grow by 2 or 3 billion by 2050" That is the UN's low estimate. The median UN human population projection estimates that w

"The human population is expected to grow by 2 or 3 billion by 2050" That is the UN's low estimate. The median UN human population projection estimates that we peak at 10 billion people around 2100. Chart at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe (I wont pretend wikipedia is a source, the chart could be completely wroing, I have not crunched the numbers at http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/unpp/panel_population.htm http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/unpp/panel_population.htm myself) In my personal experience, often when discussing war people will resort to the "there are too many people" excuse if I first convince then that other justifications to kill are invalid. There is an organization that argues the other side of Stallman's reasoning: http://overpopulationisamyth.com/category/categories/pop101 http://overpopulationisamyth.com/category/categories/pop101