Those progressives are *half* right. They have identified a very clear problem. Population growth is going to be a problem in the future – this is undeniable. Its just a simple truth. The earth has a finite area of land. The population is finite, so there is a certian area of land per-person. Should global population continue to grow, there will be less and less land per-person. Each person requires a minimum area of land to grow their food, collect their water, and absorbe their waste. Industrialistion and mass-production can increase the efficiency to a point, but if population continues to grow, then eventually there *will* be mass starvation to the point population growth ceases. I dont know if this will occur decades or centuries from now, but it is certinly going to occur.

Eventually. A very long time from now.

While the problem is real, the solutions are usually very simplistic – they look only at global population, rather than considering the much more complicated factors of regional demographics, and fail to address the root causes of population growth (culture) in favour of throwing contraception at people who dont want to use it.

Conservatives often see a ‘breeding war’ where the world will be overtaken by a wave of muslims with twenty children each unless Americans can breed like rabbits too. Perhaps they should ally with the population-panic liberals to get the birthrate down in muslim countries :>