Just as predicting population explosion by old birth rates isn't necessarily accurate, predicting that innovations will solve problems of pollution and food is likewise counting your eggs before they hatch. We already have pollution and global climate devastation on a catastrophic level and while birth rates may be declining consumption is still sky high and societies all over the globe have shown themselves to be unwilling or unable do anything intelligent to stop it. Predicting that we'll magically save ourselves and the world with bacteria or whatever is like people from the 60s assuming we'd have jetpacks and flying cars.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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