[Brian Kopp DPM]

You are delusional if you think going down to 6 billion is a more likely scenario or a bigger threat than hitting 8 billion (and growing).

Absolutely delusional.

You obviously haven't read anything in the original post of this thread, or the articles I directed you to in posts 45 - 55.

I have not said anything like you are asserting here. You are setting up straw men, then claiming these straw men are delusional.

I've never claimed "going down to 6 billion is a more likely scenario ... than hitting 8 billion." You are delusional to claim otherwise.

World population might reach 8 billion before it starts contracting. It might hit 9 billion. We're in uncharted waters, so no one knows for certain where the peak will be.

But following that peak, all demographic indications point to a rapid population contraction.

You are delusional if you believe otherwise.

And you are delusional if you think that rapid population contraction will not have dire economic, social and military implications.

• 6.5 Billion and Rising - For a Time
• Death's Wages: UNPD Population Projections Continue to Drop
• The Facts of Global Depopulation
• Global Monitor
• New Revision Points to Underpopulation Crisis

[allmendream]

So you think we may well peak at up to 9 billion people before something causes a rapid population contraction?

If so then I would be worried about what was causing the population contraction - because it wasn't and isn't declining birth rates.

Birth rates are and have been sufficient to grow human population to 5 billion awhile ago, 6 billion for the last few years, and now around 7 billion.

Birth rates will be sufficient to grow human population to 8 billion and climbing.

That is a bigger problem than DECLING birth rates.