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In reply to #1:

Stop having kids and being selfish. Besides, youll get to sleep, live comfortably, vacation and enjoy your money....especially blackss

In response to everyone's idea that nations that achieve industrialization will level off their population growth I offer two comments.

1) There are not enough resources and jobs on this planet for every single nation to achieve an industrial status. There would need to be 4 earths in order to have every human being live like a typical American.

2) Humanity's population is ever increasing. This is due to the fact that we have removed our selves from nature and control our own food source. We also produce more food than is needed to feed 6 billion people. If there is more food available than needed than our (world) population will grow. We need to stop growing a surplus; otherwise the population will continue to increase. You may ask about countries with starving populations. These are areas that have stripped their resources so that they now depend almost exclusively on imported food. I know this next part sounds terrible, but if they keep receiving food, they will reproduce another generation that is doomed to also starve. 

The key to all this...governments need to stop encouraging farmers to produce surpluses!