Skeptics like Jack Goldstone, author of nine books on society and trends, doubts that the leaders of countries would permit the situation to mushroom out of control leading to a societal and cultural collapse.

Goldstone, a professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, believes the population will begin to level off. He told the Guardian that "The means and the desire to reduce the number of children people have is spreading around the world."

Population growth also tends to level off as more people attain higher levels of education.

Goldstone argues that many factors make the UN report unlikely and a more reasonable population number by 2100 would be in the range of 10 to 12 billion. 

The Club of Rome predicted, in their "Limits to Growth" that diminishing resource would cause collapse by 1980. That changed to 1990, and then 2000.

The revised "Limits to Growth" used charts, graphs and impressive columns of numbers to drive home their hypothesis that the world was doomed by 2000 if governments didn't enforce draconian measures on their citizens. When the Millennium came and went without a collapse, the think tank amended their forecast to: "Population and industrial capital reach levels high enough to create food and resource shortages before the year 2100."

If a prediction falls short, add another 100 years.

After 40 years all the warnings smack of alarmism.

CERN's CLOUD experiment demonstrates that climate change is not anthropogenic driven.

NASA and other space agencies are warning about a long term global cooling affecting most of the 21st Century.

And revolutionary technologies for discovering, acquiring and processing oil has driven up known reserves to their highest level in history. The so-called "peak oil" theory has been proved wrong.

Some population experts even argue that the Earth could easily support 100 billion people. Lending credence to their argument is the state of Texas.

Texas and 7 billion people

Overpopulation.com observes that the popular scenario of the entire population of the world living comfortably within the borders of Texas was entirely doable. The article went on to reveal that even the environmental organization The Sierra Club's own calculator of urban sprawl versus density of population showed that everyone could live in Texas. [Map]

But the calculations also show—using The Sierra Club's own calculator—that although people were ridiculed "for suggesting that the entire world population could fit in Texas…at the density level the Sierra Club was advocating all people in the world today would be able to fit in an area just two percent as large as Texas. The state could hold upwards of 300 billion people at that level of density."

Is there anything to truly fear about a world with 10 billion, 20 billion, 50 billion people? Probably not.

Perhaps the only thing to fear is the lack of imagination on the part of some experts.

http://www.helium.com/items/2245724-global-population-could-grow-to-15-billion-by-2100

Thinking beyond the powers that be that have hugely suppressed humans so as to create artificial scarcity of key resources -- the most vital being conscious human beings that for the vast majority have been in stupefied-mode, believing in The Most Dangerous Superstitious (that’s also the title of Larkin Rose’s latest book).

Conscious man – if only most humans were fully conscious they wouldn’t have a superstitious mode – creates and produces more than he consumes. And, as conscious man increases his understanding of the laws of nature he uses that knowledge – if which knowledge begets new knowledge – to increasingly control nature for his benefit and the benefit of others. Conscious man excels at solving problems. The North Slope of Alaska has enough oil to provide the populace of North America for the next hundred years. But it’s not being tapped/drilled because deals were made with most Middle Eastern countries to by oil from them on two conditions. 1) They denominate the oil in U.S. dollars, and, 2) they use some of the profits to buy the U.S.  national debt. Search YouTube for The energy Non Crisis (Lindsey Williams) and Confessions of an Economic Hitman (John Perkins).

Self-governing humans are non-conformist. Yet getting people to conform is vital to the powers that be (PTB). Second to conscious, self-governing, value creation driven humans, the second most vital resource to control is money. He who owns the gold makes the rules. The hand that lends is above the hand that borrows.

Know this; all true wealth is created by man putting his mental and physical energies to labor resources. Man is the value that has always been the root source/backing of money. International banksters have stolen the issuance of money from its true and rightful owners. Watch, Money as Debt III – Evolution Beyond Money, for a brilliant solution to the problem. Also read: http://www.newapproachtofreedom.info/