Is this just Malthus? While it makes sense, the people predicting this have been wrong for 200 years now. Sure this might be the time they're finally right but it has a bad track record.
Came to say just this. The linked article and the paper rest of the same false assumptions that Malthus made.
Population growth is slowing and is forecast to stop later this century. Obviously there is still the change for a cataclysmic event but it seems overblown.