uhm eventually there wont be enough to keep an overpopulated planet alive. and thus the increase will decrease at a decreasing rate..
it's the same graph used to describe experiments of animals surviving in a small container.
starts out like a y=x^2 graph and turns into a log of x graph.. for the life of me i cannot remember the proper term
also, we, the human race, are already looking into making life elsewhere, not on earth, possible.

however i'm going to be my own devils advocate and say that we have such an amazing understanding of science that i dont think we can run out of supply(food & other necessities) and we'll just keep on keepin on. forever..
until the sun grows too big and its gravity pulls us spiraling toward it until impact and then only the people who are capable of living on the sun will live.. or the rich who move to the space station.. blah blah blah

2012 will clear alot of this up

2012 is a year and can not speak. how will a year, a figment of imagination, help clear this in anyway, einstein?

Probably the same thing as this experiment:
An organisation put 50 deers on an island with a reasonable amount of supplies.
Within 6 months, the population had risen to 2400.
After a further 3 months, the population was less than 10 (I forget the exact number).
The point is, they ate all the food then started to die.
The same thing will happen to us humans if we are not careful.

But, I don't think overpopulation will affect us.

Except deer cannot create their own food via agricultural means.

Starving to death is the least of our worries as a species.

(1+(1/n))^n



i'm sure you learned this equation before. It's e.

ive heard this as well, but i think the number was 10 billion.

for everybody that is highly interested in that topic i'd recommend this book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

I didn't read the newest update (just the 1972 and 1993 editions) but what really matters is the concept and that's pretty much the same in all the books.
The book/world3 model might be a bit pessimistic at some points but it's anyway not ment to be as a accurate prediction of the future but an outline and warning.



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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VFV-4T7D8DY-1&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F2008&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=1249a002945c32c971fe16ad33e9f807
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This post was edited by 5am on Jul 14 2010 10:24pm

bahamas is gonna be the only safe place in the world :-)