Read John Paul II's Theology of the Body.

Read the United Nations and their predictions in terms of population growth.

Sadly, the truth is exactly the opposite: we don't see overpopulation around the corner, but rather a dangerous certainty of underpopulation in so many areas of the world--including almost the entirety of Europe, Russia, and Korea, to name just a few.

40 years ago there were pictures drawn of people falling off the earth because there wasn't enough room for them. This brought great fear and anxiety to a generation of us. We were told that there wouldn't be enough food. Gladly, these predictions have clearly not come true--our ability to grow food has gone greatly beyond any past predictions. Unfortunately, what famine remains is always caused by some not sharing what they have or deliberately starving other people, e.g. Darfur.

Russia is in such an underpopulation problem that their parliment is actually contemplating taxing citizens who can have children and don't--calling it the "sterility tax."

Current UN predictions tell us that the world's population will probably level off at 11 billion at around the end of this century. The myth of exponential population growth has been destroyed, but it still has not left the popular level where people spread fear and think that death is the answer--euthanasia, birth control, and abortion.

We need to start looking at reality and not at overpopulation myths that are 40 years old.

UN website: www.un.org