[badc0ffee]

Bad Religion had a song Ten in 2010 that predicted 10 billion people by 2010. Not only were they wrong about the total population, they were overly pessimistic about the ability of societies to feed and support that many people.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

I'm highly confident we never reach 10 billion. There's a somewhat (small, but realistic) chance we never reach 9 billion. This is even without anything quite so dramatic as a dinosaur-killer meteor. And it's not even slightly good.