The world's population recently surpassed seven billion and according to UN projections, the next milestones of eight million will occur in 2025 and then reach 9.6 billion in 2050. Concerns about the impact of people on the planet's resources have been growing, especially if the population continues to increases. The population should not be controlled by the government because these population measures won't necessarily alleviate the world's environmental problems and also because the world's population growth is actually slowing down. Contrary to popular belief the world's population isn't bursting out of control, in fact it's actually slowing down. The UN projects a global population of 9.6 billion by the year 2050 and 10.1 billion by 2100. So, basically it would take about 40 years to add 2 billion people to the population but 50 years to add a billion after that. This shows that after the world population peaks at around 11 billion in 2100, it is quite possible that it might stop growing all together and even might. The trend of slowing down population has been going on for a while. In fact in his famous book, Essay on Principle of Population (1798), Thomas Malthus predicted that the world's population could increase to 256 billion by the 21st Century. The fact that by the year 2015 the world's population is at 7.2 billion goes to show that the world's population is in fact slowing down. Enforcing population control measures by the government doesn't necessarily guarantee success in terms of improving the world's environmental condition. The sheer magnitude of the human population makes it almost impossible to stop even if the entire world uses China's one-child policy. Prof. Corey Bradshaw from the University of Adelaide said that "Even draconian measures for fertility control still won't arrest that growth rate- we're talking about century-scale reductions rather than decadal scale because of the magnitude. He also said that gov