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Please, for the love of god, stop with fearmongering about overpopulation already. It's pure nonsense.

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#growthrate

"The latest United Nations projections indicate that world population will nearly stabilize at just above 10 billion persons after 2062." [1]

Also recommended: The documentary "Population Boom" by Werner Boote [2][3]

[1] http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/publications.htm

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3107706/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[3] (German) http://www.populationboom.at/

Could you please point out what part of that supports the idea that a leveling off of the population would be possible without contraceptives?

Both of the replies I've received so far appear to completely misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not saying the population will grow without limit no matter what. I'm saying that contraceptives are vital to avoiding that. Which is not at all contradicted by the fact that our world appears to be headed for zero population growth, because our world contains readily available contraceptives.

Do people not read, or what?

> Both of the replies I've received so far appear to completely misunderstand what I'm saying. I'm not saying the population will grow without limit no matter what.

Point taken. I'm sorry, and you're right, I don't disagree with anything you actually said.

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