Populating more important than Overpopulation

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James Rossi

Populating More Important than Overpopulation

The Middle Ages, by no means, made use of the world's resources as the population inhabiting it today does. Gies and Gies state that "energy sources were largely untapped." (Gies 4) With approximately 6.8 Billion people on the earth and a new census count on the way it's no secret that the 21st century population outnumbers Middle Age populations nearly 22:1 and we use way more that twenty two times the resources. Today we cry out that the world is overpopulated; that in as little as fifty years, we could be on the verge of a population collapse, yet the same cry rang out in the Middle Ages. With only 300 million people, in retrospect, it appears that this was a false alarm, but still the claim of overpopulation was made. Does this mean that the claims of our generation will prove to be a fallacy as well? I know it does not, but based on the premises of available resources and human ingenuity, there is a way to make overpopulation more a buzzword than an actual threat; the answer is not to have fewer babies, but to have more,