[jl6]

It would be saner to set a cap that is in some way tied to ecological footprint, food production, energy generation capacity, and other factors that make a country sustainable and sovereign. Trouble is, I expect that would put nearly every country way over.

[herbst]

It is in fact based on stuff like this but hyperboled into a placative number. The "9.142 million initiative" would sell just as good.