I wouldn't be to worried about it in the states. The article talks about the whole world, so we might just have to let Africa and all the other 3rd world places fend for themselves for a while.

Haha, I like how the solution to the problem is that everyone should become vegetarian. And in a way, you're supporting farmers plowing up CRP to feed the world. America was suppose to have the largest corn crop in history if it wasn't for the drought. With seed companies trying to produce 300 an acre bushel of corn all we need is two, maybe three years of good summer growing conditions and we will bounce back and drive the corn prices back down.

I always figured the world has a cap to the amount of life it can sustain. when it nears thats disease we havent herd or seen of in years reintroduces itself. look at china the most poulated place in the world, a sars outbreak started there a few years back, don t think it will happen again?

sounds to me like there could be some sort of population control... yes it would remove some immediate personal freedom, but for the better good of the planet I guess I would buy into it...

A few points then I'll shut up
-The world doesn't have a food production problem; it was a food distribution problem.
-Properly used and managed, livestock grazing can enhance and promote better wildlife habitat.
-Most of the undeveloped land left is rangeland, completely unsuitable for farming.
-It will be free market innovations, technology and American generosity that will save the world from starvation…wait it already is.
-The world doesn’t need violent swings from one extreme to the other, it needs balance.
-And last, are we really going to trust the vision of our future to a Socialist country like Sweden? Really Chad? I do like how you refer to the report as a story though.
And I agree with njschneider, two good growing seasons and this will all be forgotten.

We are nearing peak everything and that includes the fossil fuels that make agriculture in industrial nations possible. We are also going to be coming up short on phosphorus and potash as mentioned by another commenter. The human population trajectory is one well known to ecologists, biologists and range managers as an outbreak-crash curve. Even if we could stabilize population there are not enough resources left to sustain present levels of population and consumption. We need a declining population to match are declining resources. Unfortunately a lot of people on this planet are going to starve and are starving currently. It will only get worse. Humans were a big-brained evolutionary fluke with dire consequences for the planet, nature and ultimately for themselves.

Malthus2, In school I was taught and I'm sure you were taught that fossil fuels were created from decaying living organisms such as dinosaurs and plant matter. If this is true then fossil fuels will never go away because it is being recreated every milsecond of everyday. Just as new soil is being produced the same way. My teacher and I'm sure your teacher taught you it took millions of years to produce soil and it may very well be true, but it doesn't mean 500 million years ago the earth quite making soil. Correct?

Amy, I'm pretty sure this is not the site you should be on. I think your looking for Huffpo, where the fight over contreception and the evil republicans want control over your body and reproductive system. Your a sick person! No one wins with eugenics!

Savageshot, has a point, earth tends to heal itself pretty easily and it will do so once we pass optimal capacity. Could the AIDS "epidemic" in Africa be the earth cleaning itself? If so tell Brad Pitt and all the other bleeding hearts to stop trying to help because they are fighting against the earth they also support!

'Population Stabilizaion should be part of the solution" Sounds like people should just learn to keep their legs closed.

Irresponsible and selfish families like the TV's Duggards, with that circus of 19 babies; shouldn't be commended or praised. That family alone probably raises corn prices and puts a huge drain on the grid.

why is it our problem if the rest of the world starves to death.....we have enough water, land, meat....when they all starve to death..look at all the good land we will be able to spread ouot to!!

only 2 billion more in 40 years? there were 2 billion more from 1984 to 2004. I know that as the prices are going up I can't afford much store bought meat, certainly nothing like when my parents were my age. Who would have thought scrap meat like sausage would be $4-5 a pound.