1. The quality of life will improve. Humans are now competing for limited resources, driving up costs of living. Each individual could have more. We would no longer be fighting a perpetual uphill battle.

2. The environment will improve because of less strain on it. Pollution will be reduced. Forests will be saved. Endangered species will return. Less land will be required for growing food.

3. Famines will be less likely and diseases related to malnutrition will be reduced. Lower population density reduces the likelihood of diseases spreading. Sanitation will be easier.

4. Medical costs will be reduced.

5. The economy could boom using using those who have never before held more than subsistence jobs in highly productive wage earning positions. Third world countries could stabilize and become self-sufficient. No longer would the economy be geared toward supplying basic needs for ever greater numbers.

6. Foreign aid would be reduced.

7. Politics might have fewer critical issues to consider at one time, allowing concentration and thoughtful consideration of issues.

8. With more needs fulfilled, crime, drug use and many psychological problems should decline.

9. Poverty could be eliminated.

10. Education could be improved. Classes could be smaller, students could receive more individual attention.

11. Each human life would be perceived more valuable than now.

12. Resources could be turned towards solving genetic deficiencies, improving the lifespan.

13. Housing shortages eliminated.

SYMPTOMS OF OVERPOPULATION

Hunger, malnutrition, famine.

Desertification, erosion, declining fertility of land

Disease, plagues, epidemics

Pollution

Rising costs of living.

Increasing stress, crime, mental dysfunctions

Reducing biodiversity

General decline in quality of living.

Political unrest. Increased liklihood of wars.

Housing shortages, the homeless.