There were roughly a billion people on the planet when Malthus was writing (more than twofold what it had been consistently for the previous 2,000 years). Today, the proliferating and breeding global population has more than doubled since 1970, to 7.7 billion Homo sapiens. If you are still living by 2055, your global superbug-infested neighbors will be in the range of 10 to 11 million. As our numbers increase, our resources diminish in relation.
