User blog comment:PixCity/Overpopulation/@comment-25148755-20161120054800

So it's kind of interesting. The United States and most of Europe would actually have a negative population growth if it weren't for immigration...fewer people are having kids and those that do are having less. The global population boom is actually due to, mostly, countries like China and India. And it's not a super easy to predict thing. There was a paper way back when that max population would be reached by like a hundred years after the paper was written. But since then a whole bunch of more efficient farming techniques were created that increased food production exponentially. We say there's an issue with fossil fuels (and there is) but nothing is to say that we won't eventually come up with some better form of clean or free energy. So while I'm not saying it isn't a problem, or that you could write a good story about it, I'm not convinced it's all doom and gloom just yet.