Natural Inferno
“Our population is spiraling out of control. Inferno is the cure.” That is a quote from Dan Brown’s book Inferno . The character who says this intended to fix the world’s problems by shrinking the world population through infertility. While population isn’t the biggest problem in the world and rendering one third of the population infertile is a bad idea, population does make a significant impact in many societies. When we analyze GDP per person (PPP) in a country, then divide it by the population density, we see that countries with the lowest PPP and the highest population density have the most problems in their countries. This is due to low employment in areas where people are in close contact. Having lower economic opportunities along with challenges in daily life leads to conflicts between different religions and classes. Tensions like these lead to bigger problems, such as radicalism, and create opportunities for totalitarian governments to manipulate the population. Of cour...