Dear Foxy,

Yes you are on the right track. The answer I was looking for is the Haber-Bosch process developed in the first decade of the 20th century. It enables the production of nitrate fertilisers. This method spread immediately around the world enabling large scale food production which meant that arable areas could support many more people than conventional farming techniques were hitherto able to at the time. The use of nitrate fertilisers escalated from the early 1900s and as food became more available people could support larger families, with a consequential exponential increasing population growth resulting.

The world of politics will change as a result of over population
It already has, see the EU decaying because of refugee intake
Now tell me I am wrong but if a country can not feed its population it is over populated, or even likely, victim of very bad government
A day will come, watch it, when such country,s are forced in to better government
Because over population exists, is getting worse and will be as big an issue as climate change even globalization

Mr Opinion, here is a suggestion, let farmers get on with their work. Every time some idiot politician, Green loon or armchair warrior pops up it ends in disaster. Googl Ground Nuts Scheme!
Farmers can feed us as they were doing successfully in Zimbabwe until you lot come along burned them out, threw them out and then stole the land for yourselves. Plenty of food about always when farmers are allowed to farm.
Continual growth should be treated as a national issue again not for the corrupt elites to use to drive down everybody else and impoverish them. Majority want mass immigration, fine, if they don’t want it then set a level and allow every voter a say?
As we got Trump and Brexit wrong probably not much chance of that!

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So what's the problem ?

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#when-will-the-world-population-stop-growing

The population of Europe and Russia is already slowly declining, even adding in the fact that people are living longer. China's population growth is well below replacement rate; so is Japan's and South Korea's. And most of South America's. And that of the US.

Africa has an area five times as big as Europe's. As technology improves in Africa (and India), and as women's equality (and thereby educational opportunities) improves, population growth there will decline. By 2100, Africa will have a population about three times as big as Europe's.

So what's the problem ?

Joe

Dear Loudmouth,

I'm not convinced by your thesis that educating a woman will arrest the rate of population growth. Can you please explain to me how it works?