What is the point of continuously increasing the population? Who benefits? Why are water, land, shelter and food more expensive now for the average citizen than 20 years ago? Why does it take longer to get to work? If people are getting smarter shouldn't everything get cheaper. Shouldn't we have more natural habitat for wild animals and less plastic in the oceans. Darren Nelson says Malthus and the Greens and anybody who favours stabilising population is absolutely wrong, but he stops short of predicting the kind of nirvana we are going to have with 9 billion and then 10 billion and then 11 billion on earth. I wonder why.