Talk:Solution Epsilon/@comment-2001:EE0:464E:340:9D34:4CFE:BA9E:F972-20180221071135/@comment-34666853-20180221081202

The UN reports for 2017 indicates lower fertility rate across all regions, except for Europe with a minor 0.1 decimal increase. Overpopulation problems tend to be centered around under-developed countries and localized in areas after natural disasters or wars. The r-strategy is one way to get through heavy infant mortality of old but the advances in modern healthcare and medicine leads to sudden increase in population, a boom if you will, and that will take time to correct itself. And it will. Developed countries tend to suffer less overpopulation and developing countries, with help and better education, will reach that point faster. Current projections on world population growth based on trends in studies of human history is far from the doom and gloom cruel and, frankly, stupid simplicity of "too many people", especially when people espousing such views rarely view themselves as the expandable excess.

I can't provide links but if you would kindly look up on YouTube the TedTalk "Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen", it's a start. If you want more comprehensive sites, try ourworldindata dot org.

Sincerely, scientist tired of humans talking down their own species. Please don't emulate my professors in environmental studies courses who sees our very existence as a blight instead of a hope and a promise that for the first time in the history of life on earth, natural selection stumbled on a species that can take life beyond one planet, one galaxy, and maybe even one universe.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via!