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The world could sustain WAY more humans then it currently does, but that does not mean it should.

We shouldn't even have as many (or nearly as many) humans as we currently do. There are many reasons for population control.

Responsibility: Everyone who has a child should be responsible for that child, plan to take care of the child and have the resources to do so, and the child should grow up in a caring and nurturing environment. Any time this is not the case it is a travesty far worse then aborting a child or not having one in the first place.

Environment: While the world can sustain more people, we are not currently technologically advances, or Economically motivated enough to do so without causing damage to the world at large, destroying other life forms en mass, using up un-replacible resources and potentially having wars in a fight over them. If we kept the world wide population at around 2 billion, there would still be many people available to be creative, you could use robots/machines to cover most menial labor and allow a greater number of humans to exercise their creativity and every single one would have more resources, no struggle for survival, way less crime and in the US especially you wouldn't have to keep them in cages and treat them worse then animals should be treated.

Food: Yeah, we could produce way more food, more then enough for double the worlds population, but at least for now, we often do so in very cruel ways. The number of cows that are killed each year to support our population for instance, and they way they are raised/treated etc. Less humans could enable a more humane way of producing the meat needed (although we should and could do that even with our current population).

I always wanted kids, and I am not against people having them, I AM against people having children by mistake....or abandoning them, I'm against children being abused, suffering, being basically forced into crime and treated like less then human etc. I think every single human should be appreciated and given the tools and opportunity to succed and have a good life. A primary way to accomplish that would be to control population growth and restrict the ability to have children to those who are ready for it. Much like getting a drivers licence, you need a license to pro-create.
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