Reply #173: But you're assuming that because the American population only grows slowly

[muriel_volestrangler]

and the European and Japanese populations are steady or declining, that they don't have a population problem. It's not the growth rate that's the problem, it's the level of population - pollution and water and other resource usage are already problems in these countries. What is productive about 'lecturing'? It decreases the use of those resources. We can decrease the population and get more efficient, and less consuming. All avenues must be followed.