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What can one say? Be afraid, be very afraid? Is this supposed to be alarming?

Look at it from this perspective. The high school principal walks into your math class, and points out six or seven students, and says "These students will all produce 15 children a piece!"

Okay, fortune teller. I guess I have to do something about that? Maybe... tell them to wear condoms? Yeah, that works. Oh, right. Abstinence only birth control. Even better.

Or... Is it not bout the procreation, and the abortion, and the safe sex, and the birth control? What is this about?

Is it about the single child policies that China implemented? Is about the male baby bias that produced skewed demographics in China, decades later?

Maybe, it's that the jungle and the endangered species are all doomed, and that one giant continent may support all those people, but only through horrendous pollution and environmental damage. Or maybe advanced technology will enable new scales of population growth.

What should one say to this? Not everyone is going to be a millionaire? Famine might stifle the whole thing, producing horrible realities on the ground?

It may very well be that live births will produce an effective explosion of recorded names, brith certificates might triple count of the the standing population, but how long they last might produce similarly grim statistics to match, and like Rwanda, grim might be something of an understatement.

I mean, the report might be right. Things may happen on that continent, and it may be a train wreck. But for all the predictions, no suggested intervention. We're just going to watch it happen, so I guess someone deserves a pat on the back for calling it now, but it's useless information until events transpire, and even then, all we get is an "I told you so."

Yipee!