text: Too many of these comments reflect limited thought, poor understanding and dogmatic rigidity. This not 2000, or 2010.  We have learned a lot since then, and more every day.
  We now know that the only ways to control population growth are war, disease, famine....and economic prosperity.  Today, fewer people die in war than by suicide.  Fewer people die of starvation than from over-eating. And fewer people die of disease than from living longer or better. This has never happened in 15,000 years of human history.
  So for you "population is too high" proponents, we can state with absolute certainty that other that the three unpalatable choices, economic prosperity is the only choice.   Individuals en masse now make procreation a second choice after economic well being.  Even religion is powerless to stop this, otherwise we would have 10 billion more Catholics, and Iran's birth rate would not have dropped below replacement levels.
  Further, how dumb do you have to be to ignore demographics?