[Doctordick]

SugarMoses said:

There is evidence that suggests as education and standard of living increases, parents decide to have less children.

You have hit the nail on the head. If you check historical records you will discover that, when education and standard of living gets high, all societies have exactly the opposite problem, population decline. Even ancient Rome had serious problems with their educated and well off people not reproducing. They actually passed laws requiring marriage.

The solution to over population is advanced education for everyone. But it won't happen; my prediction is that the solution will be left to nature and nature's solutions are usually quite painful.

Have fun -- Dick

PS A billion is way over the correct answer. With modern technology I think the human race would do fine with a population around a hundred million and the optimum population could be as low as twenty million. That would be enough to provide a sufficient number of people to carry on every activity we currently enjoy plus enough people to support those efforts and, if the population were that low we wouldn't have to worry about much.

[dannieyankee]

Unfortunately, until we are able to actually do something about it aside from few 'charities' that work very little and only help a very small portion of countries for a very short time, we are screwed.

You know, I think the main problem with all of the world is that the UN has no power. It can't do anything. It can't overtake a government that is corrupt or starving and torturing its people. Think Cuba. What is it doing there? Nothing. Why? Because it can't do anything.

As soon as the UN has power, things like education can be enhanced, especially in third world countries.