Overpopulation’s Roots
One day within the last three hundred thousand years, a human not yet Sapiens cried the loss of a child.
Humanity has been trying since not to survive its progeny.
I say, even if mortality rates vary a lot across the world, all in all as a species we have achieved such a goal.
Overpopulation should be a source of pride, not just of worries
Maurizio - Omnologos 
[…] Readers of this blog will not be surprised to hear that I do not believe in gloomy forecasts, and particularly so in the gloomiest of them. I am also not convinced that there is a present situation of overpopulation right now: some back-of-the-envelope calculation seems to suggest full capacity would be around 15 billion people, even allowing for everybody to become a well-fed American. And who can forget that the current size of human population is the consequence of a struggle that must have lasted for a good part of the last million years? […]
Speaking Out About (Over-)Population « Maurizio - Omnologos
2009/Feb/19 at 00:14:00