Reply #2: I'm still trying to work out a good way to express this

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It's something like, "We are a problem; they have a problem."

I think Monbiot misses an extremely important point about the population debate,which IMO is this: The problem the third world has is that the impacts of the resource constraints (food, water and energy) that are already bedeviling them will render insignificant any intervention, humane or otherwise. This isn't a racist or eugenic position statement, it's a statement of cold fact.

The present and future problem is not that third world population is putting pressure on world resources, but that decline of world resources is putting pressure on on their population.