When Will We Wake Up?

"My friend Rob Watson, the environmental consultant, likes to say, 'You know, if you jump off the top floor of an eighty-story building, you can actually feel like you're flying for seventy-nine stories. It's the sudden stop at the end that gets you.' If we don't wake up, that is where we're heading-toward a sudden stop at the end."
-Thomas L. Friedman (Author of Hot, Flat and Crowded)

The population has grown very swiftly in the past 20 years. As of 2009, the estimated population of the world was 6.8 billion people. It is estimated that by 2050 there will be 9.4 billion people on our planet. This is what is going to destroy the planet and all of its resources. I do not think there is no real practical way to solve this problem, but I do believe that it is possible. No one has simply come up with the solution yet. It is very hard to believe that so many people in the world do not believe that we have a problem and that they do not realise that we need to figure out a way to fix the problem we have.

http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_hamblin_eds_10/12/3275/838447.cw/index.html
Population Growth:
http://geography.about.com/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm