It's rare to read such common sense. More often the articles about population postulate how we will feed our ever growing population. Or one article yesterday, "The Myth of Over Population." It's seems as though an ever growing population is a foregone conclusion. Why is that? Whether overpopulation contributes to our environmental problems or inevitably results in crisis or not, what possible good can come from an ever increasing global population.? Why is a larger population better? Is it simply because we lack the discipline, courage or global will to say that our planet is more likely to be sustainable and have less environmental problems if we change our ways AND limit our population. Is the Earth a better place today with 7.6 billion people than it was in 1975 with a little over 4 billion people? If population continues unchecked, there is a point even with everyone living at subsistance levels, that we will still outstrip our resources. So why is it so important to push that? To get to a point of desperation, survival of those who can eck out enough food and water to survive. Granted that in the United States there is extrodinary waste and that has to change, for no other reason than that it's simply grotesque. Empty people, living empty lives, simply to buy more stuff to keep the wheels of commerce turning. But to say it is better for the Earth to house 20 billion people just above starvation levels, than 4 billion people enjoying plenty of the basic necessities of life, it just buggers the mind. Unless there is some dumb ass religious reason for consigning as many souls as possible to a living hell here on Earth