Pete Alcorn response

Pete Alcorn talked about the world in 2200 he opened with figures from the U.N. that showed how the worlds populaton would grow to about 10 billion and then decrease over time. He stated that although this may not seem like a good thing it actually might be. First he stated that it would lift a burden from the poor becasue it would mean less people in a limited amount of space. That would cause less crowding and would eventually lead to better conditions. The other reason he said declining populatoin would be good is becasue it would cause scarce labor. That in turn drives up wages, another benefit for the poor and working class. Pete stated that history shows when population drops conditions go up. After the black death Europe saw many benfits including higher wages and land reform as above stated but also a birth of a middle class. In todays society where there is already a middle class I think that it would cause an increase in the middle class which would mean less poor people. Because we have no madern equivilant to this he states that we always lood back at the "good old days" but we should look foreward because there is another upturn coming. Another European Enlightenment and Rennasance for the whole world all we have to do is make it over the speedbumps along the way.
Pete's prenentation style was very succient. His whole talk took about four minutes so it was very easy to listen to the whole thing attentivly. This was a talk that I was more interested in becasue I love the outdoors and the thought of a huge population covering the world doesn't make we want to live forever.  I agree that a slight decrease in population could be good for humantity as a whole and end up benifitting the planet from the innovation that could come from a second Rennasance of sorts.