After commenting on our dis-graceful handling of our affair with Puerto Rico I had a bit of a population ponder.
When I was old enough to crunch some numbers I learned that our planet had three billion people on it. I was told that in the living memory made voice before me it had been been one and a half billion. With just a bit more casting about for source information in the early 1970s I learned that it had been scientifically proven that the earth could sustain no more than 3.5 billion people under any circumstances.
We were doomed.
