Feminism and Diversity

Not too long ago I read something -- it may have been an entire book -- which claimed that our fears of world overpopulation are vastly overblown, given that many first world countries have a contracting population. Essentially the only reason the U.S. has a growing population is because of immigration. So this author's thesis was basically, Not to worry. We will soon be allowing many more people in from the countries with growing populations because we'll need them to do a lot of the work that needs to be done.

I think he rather overstates his case, because the declining populations in a relatively small number of countries does seem to be more than offset by those with growing populations. And most demographers see almost no stopping, at best a slowing down of world population.

I'm of the opinion that this planet is already vastly overpopulated, and that there will eventually be a population crash. When it happens and what form it will take I can only make various guesses, but I don't know if it will happen soon enough, or be on a large enough scale, to keep us from totally destroying our planet, making it unlivable.

Added on edit: I just played around a bit more, and discovered that site allows you to project the population pyramids all the way to 2099, and it does project a declining population.