Today, Earth Day, behooves all of us to give serious consideration on alleviating the horrific problems that plague our world, and threaten to make it uninhabitable in a very short term. At the root of all the problems, including fouled water, polluted air and soil, melting glaciers, severe crowding – not to mention mass panic migrations (such as claimed over 850 lives this week) is overpopulation . Already multiple lines of research are questioning the UN estimates that project a global population of 10.9 billion by 2100. If, however, women – mainly in the poorest nations and without access to contraceptives, have even 0.5 more offspring each (than projected) that 2100 estimate could turn into 12.3 billion or even 15.8 billion. The latter pointing to a certain ‘Soylent Green’ world. Meanwhile, Adrian Rafferty of the University of Washington, publishing in a recent issue of Science, computed there’s […]