2001 and Dr. Floyd's Thoughts On Overpopulation

I'm currently reading the book 2001 by Authur C Clark and partly by Stanley Kubrick. The book was published in 1968, which is concurrent with the movie.

Dr. Floyd has a small part to play in the book and movie. As he travels the long boring journey to the moon to study the monolith, he begins to think of the terrible state the world is in, including food shortages and a myriad of other problems due to overpopulation.

The year is 1999, and the overwhelming population that he speaks of is over six billion people on the earth. Clark foretold the future, which became a reality. What would Floyd think of today's numbers totaling 7,200,000,000 people?
Twelve percent of the people in the world are undernourished though the rising population is not to blame. According to Action Against Hunger, the amount of food available isn't the problem, complications arise with the distribution of supplies to the impoverished, and teaching farming and other skills that help inhabitants to become self-sufficient.

The UN projects that the population growth fifteen years from now will be well over eight billion and in 2050 close to ten billion. I can feel the earth shudder at the thought of so many people hitching a ride on her shoulders.

The time is well beyond 2001, and though we don't have bases on the moon and Mars and ships traveling to Jupiter, I believe people from 1968 would be sufficiently impressed by our ability to watch trivial, inane cat videos using the technology of today.

http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/blog/hunger-and-population-growth-correcting-common-misunderstanding

Gravettians And Their Contribution To Fashion

Gravettians, the homo sapiens that lived around 29,000 to 22, 000 B.C. (I never add the E., because of the added cost, and the staggering implications of contamination). Their home spread throughout Europe, and during that time period the area mainly consisted of grassy fields containing hungry beasts roaming around, eating the grass (behaving in normal beastly behaviour).

Useful tools and ideas survived the Gravettians brief time on earth, and one I'm immensely thankful for--the discovery of sewing. Creating a needle and thread to construct clothes for warmth, they added an additional concept called "style" (perhaps for ceremonies or possibly an outfit denoting the leader). Clothes, fitted to the body, in an endless variety of designs, continued throughout our human existence, and will continue as long as the human race prevails.
To our eyes, his clothing style isn't eminently fashionable, yet GQ magazine of 26,000 B.C. would gladly feature this outfit on the cover for a winter issue.
If the caveman suddenly appeared in our time, what must he comprehend of jeans, t-shirts and tennis shoes?
After looking at our world, he'd conclude that this was his ancestral home, and somehow he had died without noticing, or adaptation would quickly become the normal, and rapidly his selfies would appear on facebook.