There's no hiding the fact that the human population is getting bigger and bigger and that every passing day sees it reaching a new record high. The pace of this is speeding up but are we heading for a loss of control?
Mankind is right at the top of the food chain and we seem to be eliminating all natural threats and checks on our population size. Our standards of living are generally very high and medical care is excellent in most locations. We live in a very comfortable world and you may even be reading this from one of the nice apartments in Florence or whilst sipping on your favourite evening tipple.
We have no real hardships if we compare our lives to those of people living just 100 years ago and we can realistically expect to have far less to worry about in the future too. Life is getting easier and this will further speed up the population growth on Earth.
There's not much to be said about other planets in this domain but some people even believe that we are soon to be looking outwards into space to extend our territory.
Mankind is growing and we are never going to be satisfied. Having said that, we were told to go fourth and multiply.