I'd like to see a variation of that "first baby of the new year" feature newspapers are always running to honor the 6,500,000,000th person born on Earth Saturday. How many people can the Earth support? Short answer: As many as there are. Every since Malthus, various "experts," such as Paul Ehrlich, have been predicting that overpopulation would eventually exhaust the world's resources. They've been wrong every single time, but people still keep paying attention to them.
