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Never would have pegged you for a supply sider, Andrew. What about demand? Maybe we simply happen to have at least several billion more people than the planet will support. It's just amazing to me that no one wants to talk about the elephant in the room: there are too goddamn many people. No, instead everyone keeps trying to rationalize supporting denser and denser populations with less and less - and they call it "conservation". Or they simply stick their heads in the sand, pretend fundamentals are really just fine, and blame the damn "speculators". Both positions are sadly misguided.
The only thing I've ever heard consistently correlated with diminishing birth rates is education. Human population is the world's number one problem, for humans and every other species. Instead of throwing a trillion dollars into baseless human destruction in far away places, we should be waging war on ignorance; because education is the only way out of this mess. That, or face catastrophic annihilation - bombs, plagues, starvation - take your pick.
