User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/Jeremiah's Depressing Predictions on the Future/@comment-7097825-20130614162711/@comment-3112181-20130615002858

Of course, overpopulation won't be an issue in Europe for a while; I was mainly focusing on Asian countries, e.g. China, India, and Bangladesh. And historically, Europe has many ties to the Middle East and other Islamic regions, which would explain the prominent Muslim populations in the ex-Ottoman countries, France, Spain, and even Germany and Italy. I agree that more and more immigrants (I wouldn't call them all illegal) are flocking to northern and western Europe. Having been born and lived in the UK for several years, our biggest minority are Pakistanis. In Germany, it's the Turks. But, countries like Pakistan and to a lesser extent, Turkey, are also suffering from overpopulation, thus the reason they move elsewhere.

And to say overpopulation is not an issue is straight-up insane. Several organisations like the WHO have already attempted to tame overpopulation by offering free contraceptives to places like Africa; only to be followed by Catholic priests who then tell the same African countries that using condoms is sinful. An increase in contraceptives, therefore, is simply not the answer, as our population continues to increase, literally, by the second. Already world hunger is, obviously, a serious problem. You said when countries are able to feed their population, then it isn't a problem. Well, that's just the thing! Many countries aren't able to feed their population, due to a combination of large populations and poor economics. And that's not just limited to places like Africa and India; in developed nations too, like China and the US, famine is serious and widespread. It's simple math: the more people we have on our Earth, the faster and more frequently they reproduce. Unless a massive genocide or plague comes along (I'm NOT endorsing this) and levels off the human population to, say, 4 billion people (which, any scientist will tell you, is the ideal population of Earth), we're in for trouble. Our population is rising exponentially.

And, for the record, this is where I got my numbers, the World Overpopulation Awareness cite: http://www.overpopulation.org/faq.html.