[null and void]

BINGO!

The question is how. Hard, or easy...

[steve-b]

Barring attempts by the government to "engineer national policy" (i.e. f*** up everything), population will (like most natural phenomena) oscillate around an equilibrium -- people have few children for a while, land and housing get real cheap, people start having more kids, livable regions get annoyingly crowded, people start having fewer kids,... and round and round the cycle goes.

Ehrlich would look at a patient catching a fever and predict spontaneous human combustion. London would look at a patient recovering from a fever and predict a corpsicle.

[dirtboy]

The question is how. Hard, or easy...

It'll seek out its own level, and there are already signs of that happening - the birthrate in Mexico, for example, has dropped significantly in recent years. But it's demented to wish painful death of five billion people because the poster in questions wants more lebensraum.