[TimReynolds]

Clearly not the solution. But do you really see a future were countries don’t have population control methods in place.

[ZeroGravitas]

Hans Rosling seems to think we'll top out at 10 billion.

http://youtu.be/fTznEIZRkLg

and the main mechanism is, counter-intuitively, reducing child mortality in the poorest areas.

[capisce]

The number of children between 0-20 has been rather steady for the last decade or two, the only reason the world population is growing is that the average age is increasing, not that an ever increasing amount of children are being born.

Eventually the population will stabilize by itself and possibly also start decreasing as the countries that have the largest population growth continue toward full industrialization and modern ways of living.

[InclinedPlane]

Of course. The best population control method in history has proven to be...

wealth.