Solutions: Population
Population planning is necessary if we do not want to experience the natural yet extreme and dysfunctional solutions to an overloaded population as outlined in Issues: Population.
China has implemented a program of one child per family by policy. This policy has helped to raise China out of poverty and misery.
On the other hand, since World War II, Western Europe has had a low birthrate without a stated policy.
To solve the population crisis, we actually need only encourage a culture of small well-networked extended families.
Draconian measures are not necessary, just a cultural adaptation to the realities of the modern world - Since children do not die anymore from childhood diseases, there is no room for 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 children per family.
The obstacles are largely "politico-religious". These cultural influences need to be modified.
What We Can Do
Quotes
"Unlike plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources we possess. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity of the problem and education of the billions who are its victim." Martin Luther King, Jr.
