Nitack says that as humanity grows wealthier, people have fewer children. That is certainly true and world population would begin to level off.
But it seems that only a small part of the world is getting wealthier. Even in China, it is only the urbane population that has few children. Most people in India, Indonesia, China and in Latin America as well as AFrica are having large families. Some have nine to twelve or more children.
Then, also, the economic crisis can very easily eliminate much of the economic gain in the last few decades. And every year, we use up more resources and add more pollution.
Kayra has a solution. Science just keeps progressing so that technology enables us to keep up improvising and developing better ways of reaching harder to get resources and finding substitutes.
My observation, however, is that Religious Reaction and science do not mix. The more one becomes militantly Old Religion, the less science. After all, they are not compatible! One is always at the expense of the other. And Religious Reaction has been increasing for the last 40 years. It is just a matter of time before creationism goes in and evolution goes out. That is the trend, and there is good reason for it. . . cause and effect. People are desperately falling back on it because our secular system is weakening. We only give lip service to our secular ideals and easily give them all up when we feel threatened.
charles
. (see:
the Atheistic Science Institute - home page )
