What Will Happen When Earth Becomes Overpopulated?

[Mr Khan]

HappySqurriel said:

Seece said:
The 'One Child Policy' in China has prevented an estimated 250 million births in the same span of ten years.

More measures like this I imagin.

So we can have a massive shortage of women which will (likely) result in significant social problems?

 

Realistically, for centuries there have been people predicting doom and gloom in the near future because of over-population and humans have beaten the odds by becoming far more productive than was anticipated. If we were able to make better use of the land in the world that is currently being mismanaged in third-world dictatorships we will (probably) be able to support twice as many people worldwide, I suspect that development of unexpected technology (like inexpensive greenhouses) will probably double production per acre over the next 50 to 100 years, and spreading democratic capitalism throughout the world will result in prosperity that will naturally bring down the birth rate to a very slow growth after we factor in for much longer life-spans

Lack of women = less opportunity for reproduction :P

But seriously, disincentive-based population control measures would work better in cultures that have gotten past the notion that only a son is any good for a family