Note to lexographers:
Merriam-Webster Web Dictionary
Overpopulation
Function:  noun
Date:  1802
1: the condition of having a population so dense as to cause environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash. 
Addition suggested:
Date:  1965
2: economic jargon for one leg of  capitalism’s three-legged stool, the other two being a non-union worker class and unregulated access to Earth’s resources.
Antonym: underpopulation.
New word suggested:
Underpopulation
Function:  noun
Date:  2009
1: the condition of having a population below the capacity of its productivity and spare enough to be civil, sustainable, and environmentally benign. 
Date:  2009
2: economic jargon for a lamentable condition when parents fail to have enough children to avoid collapse of national economies, requiring retooling of 19th Century capitalism’s policies irrationally based on unending growth.
Antonym: overpopulation.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
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