At first I was a little surprised to learn that the average age in Utah is 27.  Take one trip to walmart during the day and you'll figure it out.  I was getting groceries today and saw a woman pushing around 2 carts, one had 5 kids in it!  I doubt any of them were older than 5-6. 

I've been in debates with people about overpopulation and a common response is, "God will provide," --what a scary thought sometimes.  There are many christians/mormons/republicans that use this phrase all the time.  We're supposed to have as many kids as we can provide for.  You can look around the world presently and see many examples of how this is completely untrue.

I don't believe that God takes an active role in our lives.  Consider that once the world had a population of 1 billion, it took 100 years to reach 2 million.  After, it took 30 more years to reach 3 billion.  Think back of the JFK assassination, the world had half the population it does now.  I read a study, I don't remember where presently, that said in a perfect world where we used advanced agriculture on all the usable farmland in the world, it could theoretically support around 16 billion.  That might sound like we've got a lot of cushion, but consider, that is the whole world cooperating and sharing. 

What happens when we run out or resources?  Millions and millions of people will start dying of hunger and growing poverty.  If that happens, how many people are going to be asking, "Where is God?  How can he allow this to happen?"

If that happens, the real question should be, where were we when we should have taken responsibility and realized that the population cannot continue to grow at the pace it's going. Then again, "if" it does come to to that point, I suppose it was all a part of God's plan, right?