Do elaborate on how war or inventions will make more babies?
Well, wars probably remove babies, same for the invention of the anti-baby pill. IIRC neither the wars nor the pill were predicted in the 1900s, just like we can't predict what will happen before the end of this century.
Some big asteroid impact might just end our population concerns for good.
Or perhaps we defeat aging with bio-tech. Or designer-babies become so popular that everyone even in developed countries suddenly wants five.
I'm not saying any of that will happen. I'm just wary of predictions reaching more than half a century into the future. After all: We're having this discussion on a medium that nobody 50 years ago would have imagined to exist (outside of SciFi books).
Well, wars probably remove babies, same for the invention of the anti-baby pill. IIRC neither the wars nor the pill were predicted in the 1900s, just like we can't predict what will happen before the end of this century.
Some big asteroid impact might just end our population concerns for good. Or perhaps we defeat aging with bio-tech. Or designer-babies become so popular that everyone even in developed countries suddenly wants five.
I'm not saying any of that will happen. I'm just wary of predictions reaching more than half a century into the future. After all: We're having this discussion on a medium that nobody 50 years ago would have imagined to exist (outside of SciFi books).