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Comment by nancyminusone

3 hours ago

"on the cusp of beginning to"

This will happen no earlier than the 2080s. The world population is expected to increase every year until then. We will add nearly 2 billion people in that time. Consider that the entire world population was less than 1 billion for all but the last 221 years.

I continue to not worry.

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