The Royal Society, supposedly the leading scientific organisation in the UK, has just released a report looking at the interplay of populationgrowth and consumption and what thatmeans for future economic growth.
It also meansthat whereas populationgrowth may not be a global problem, it could often be a very nasty local one, causing conflict over local resources, especially water, and privation when politics (frequently) or natural disaster (occasionally) cause local scarcity or epidemic disease even within a wider world of abundance and improving health.