We have environmental problems and resource utilization problems, but it's facile to blame it on "too many people having babies". In countries with decent economic standards, high degrees of reproductive and intellectual (i.e. not religously dogmatic) freedom, the so-called "population problem" takes care of itself.
Right now the US fertility rate hovers at or below replacement levels. If people choose not to have kids, that's great, because certainly only people who want children should have them. But framing that as inherently morally superior (with the implication that people who DO choose to have kids are morally deficient in some way) is bs. Not supported by reality in any way.
And yes, I know that "people in 1st world countries use more resources"--- to which no one ever seems to want to follow their logical solution, which doesn't make any sense: The 1st world isn't going away. So the problem is a resource utilization one, not a population one.
But I realize it's like learning that "pluto is a planet", back in the day. If you heard a particular set of facts repeated over and over long enough ("population problem"
.... very little is likely to dissuade you.
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