Quote Originally Posted by DB_Hunter
Are you thinking in simple terms as "less people = less food (etc) needed for humanity"? The reasons for world poverty lie in politics and the kind of economic systems that are implemented in world today, not because the Earth can't provide enough resources.
I hear statistical theories on how natural gas will be exhausted within the next 10 years...
theories on how water tables in North America will dry up within 10-20 years...
For practically every single adult in America, there's a car polluting the atmosphere. Scientists have conservatively presumed that even if every single CO2 emission was stopped right now, there would still be enough in the atmosphere to increase the temperature of the planet by 10 degrees within this century.

All this directly correlates to population.

Kitkat's right, politics and economics can change to meet our needs, but the environment cannot.