text: Yeah, I'm with you on that, too.  The (somewhat) good news on that front is that population growth is stabilizing world wide, though Africa and India haven't slowed down much at all.  India will overtake China as the most populous country within 20 years.  We just can't keep packing the Earth with more people without bound.  But the numbers look good for stabilizing, though that will be at around 9-10 billion or so.  Still not ideal, but better than those exponential curves we saw 30 years ago.