The issue now is really increasing resource consumption rather than increasing population.
Any developed nation ought to be seeing their population growth slow down a bit thanks to contraception and increasingly equal and status rights for women (thus supplying both the ability and the motivation to control child birth).
That is developed nations though. In nations where contraception is not widespread or is mistrusted and where women are not experiencing increasing educational and career prospects as men, we can presumably expect the same population boom to continue.
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Date: 2014-06-15 12:13 am (UTC)Any developed nation ought to be seeing their population growth slow down a bit thanks to contraception and increasingly equal and status rights for women (thus supplying both the ability and the motivation to control child birth).
That is developed nations though. In nations where contraception is not widespread or is mistrusted and where women are not experiencing increasing educational and career prospects as men, we can presumably expect the same population boom to continue.