Is the Ultimate Solution to Global Warming Population Control?

The size of the population is a key ingredient to the consumption of natural resources, no doubt. Through most of the 20th century, world food production managed to increase faster than the population, This capability is now slowing; the large amount of resources consumed on a WW scale is an even larger factor. Look at the living space you have, the miles you travel in a year, via all modes of transportation, the food, the utilities; all of these things you use, you use in quantities many times over the amount your grandparents used. There are areas of the earth where the populations are contracting - Japan and Italy come to mind, but I am sure there are more - so their consumption rates should be able to approach flat line, but likely won't. The demand for 'more' of so many things taxes the Earth's ability to sustain all of us. Population control is kind of an unspeakable solution. Alone it will not solve the issue, simply because the people that remain may just continue consuming at an increasing rate. Read Malthus to get an idea of the impact of population growth.