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Good Google Halloween Witch doodle. If you click on the right two ingredients, a green ghost will destroy the world!
Global population growth is slowing down and the world population will most likely reach a maximum of 8-11 billion before the year 2100. Contrary to popular belief we're not like locusts: preventive population control was practised by all hunter gatherer tribes prior to the switch to agriculture and even today people admit to preferring small families once you free them from religions that teach "go forth and multiply".