World Population

So the UN estimates that the world's population will be over 9 billion by 2050. You read this story and you would think having kids is a bad thing. They have lines in there like, "The good news is that new estimates show that it will take a little longer to add the next half billion, reaching the 7 billion mark probably by 2013." Is it that bad that we continue to add to the global population? Are we seriously going to run out of land or space?

Here is an interesting fact. If you took 9 billion people and put them in Oakland County, MI each person would have 2.7 square feet of living space. Granted this is a simplistic view due to resource consumption and other factors, that make over-population a potential issue. But for me this seems like yet another scare tactic used by people to gain funding for pet projects. It is obvious this is the case based off of this line, "We must take more urgent action to promote access to reproductive health, including family planning, and fight HIV/AIDS to save millions from AIDS and maternal death..."

Hmmm, I wonder which groups are promoting this idea of over population being a problem?

Genesis 9
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.