World overpopulation wouldn't be such a big problem (space-wise, at least) if everyone lived as densely as they do in South Korea or New Jersey.
The UN has predicted that the world population will reach 9.6 billion by 2050--nearly 2.5 billion more people on Earth than we have at the moment. In 2013, the annual day in which humanity consumes more natural resources than the planet is capable of recovering from in a year came early, once again. Overpopulation also just happens to be one of those words that immediately triggers images of the apocalypse, despite the fact that nothing in human existence seems more routine than birthing a child.
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