The day of six billion. October 12, 1999 was the day the world’s population was estimated to reach six billion people. That is enough people to fill a football field 400,000 times. If everyone was willing to stand, everyone on earth could fit comfortably into half of Rhode Island. The worlds population has doubled in the last 33 years. What does that mean to a student at North Scott high school; a 12 year old bride in New Delhi, …showed first 75 words of 1547 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1547 total…com/issues/93feb/mann1.htm). The overpopulation is a myth. Many philosophers has “predicted” the overpopulation of the world, the hunger, scarcity of resources, and so on. The most famous was Sir Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) in his famous work, An Essay on the Principle of Population. Malthus stated that poverty and distress are unavoidable because population increases faster than the means of subsistence. The only check against overpopulation was war, famine, disease, and moral restraint.