and we keep filling it up with people since it's not PC to tell people what to do with there gamete's. Although I think China and Japan may have figured this one out.

anyway...my pondering is thus:

we, as humans occupying this finite space, actually need wars and famine and pestilance to check out population since we're too stupid to do it ourselves.

what would the world's population be if all the millions of people who have been killed in all the wars and black death's and genocides had lived to reproduce?

the world population grows by 75 million people every year.

is it any wonder that we are losing species of animals every year?

geez, we need to be killing 75 million people a year just to stabalize.

and if this is a wrong way of thinking then what is a right way?

eventually, probably in the not too distant future, we'll eat ourselves out of existence anyway.

my best answer is to pull the cork on the space program and open it up to commercial interests and get some of us of this friggin planet.