As I've always said we have no population problem, only a greed and stupidity problem. Three quarters of the Earth's surface is water and until recently we could only live on 10% of the Earth's Land mass, the rest was inhospitable. NOW with our advanced technology we can live ANYWHERE, in the deserts, at the poles, on the sea and even under the sea. The more people on the Earth allowed to reach their full potential, the more geniuses we will have amongst them. The more geniuses the faster we will develop good ethical technology for the benefit of civilisation, for a thriving planet and people. Just like individual people, all though it's development a civilisation will be given choices, the right choices and the wrong choices. The right choice is to allow the planet to thrive and have faith and trust that we will find the answers to every problem. The wrong choices are greedy restrictive corrupt Governments, Corporations poisoning and sucking all of the wealth from the people and the Earth, restriction, restraint, war and death, sterilisation, disease, poverty and suffering. The wrong choices can and have destroyed entire civilisations. Don't think it can't happen to our civilisation too. We are on the brink of a MASSIVE jump forward or if usa continues on it's course, the complete destruction of our civilisation, both planet and people. Such reckless behaviour from the 1%, the rulers of the "Empire", gambling with the future of the world, is unacceptable and we the people have got to wake up and bring this charade to an end NOW! Yours sincerely, Dick Amateur 8th September 2014