it is infuriating when the topmost comment on that article is about overpopulation FUD while the comments have gotten closed, so I am unable to retort.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/opinion/overpopulation-is-...

There is absolutely no hard evidence that world overpopulation should be seen as a serious concern, because we do not know the actual food production capacity limit of the earth, and clearly we are already wasting quite a bit of whatever's there (such as eating meats instead of plants).