Quote Originally Posted by lucy View Post
The problem is not the number of people but the amount of resources - many of them limited - each of them needs.
How much arable land is consumed by the places we live?
How much food could be produced if we all lived like New Yorkers. Yes I know you meant non-edible resources as well. As a species we have made great changes in the resources we use over the species lifetime. We can make more changes yet.
The inventiveness of the human mind is not to be overlooked!