Starvation is an inefficient means of controlling human populations. In a pinch poor people have the tendency to grow their own food, scrape small amounts of food out of discarded cans in dumpsters, cook up family pets, or simply eat grass (as during the Irish Potato Famine). There are simply too many easy alternatives to eating real food for starvation to adequately control human populations.

If the world's population is going to be effectively controlled, it seems war is still the best remedy. And nuclear war seems ready for the challenge.

Pestilence is another such means, but this is a hit-or-miss proposition. Though we might note significant scientific progress is being made in bio-weaponry intended to target specific populations with good kill rates.

Still, noting the extent of the problem supporting bio-fuels seems a population control approach with an efficacy factor that should not be entirely discounted as ineffective.

Increased pollution from an increased availability of fuel of all kinds is bound to pay population control dividends sooner or later. And experts have been lately advising the only way to go is to get cremated when the blissful end does come, this for its usefulness in adding to the depth of the oxygen depletion of the lower atmosphere in urban settings.

And if you must have a dog, get three big ones that crap terds the size of cord wood.