Is That a Buick Flying By? April 13, 1998February 5, 2017 From Bob, on my concerns over the world’s “population problem” — which I think may be a problem: “Consider this: We are 6 billion humans. There are 300 billion birds on the planet. They seem to do all right. Perhaps the birds are smarter than we are? Regards, Bob” Perhaps. Or maybe they just drive smaller cars.