In the history of humanity, maybe at least since small bands of people were walking around, it's never been about fewer people. Every institution we have doesn't function with fewer people. Fewer taxpayers, fewer customers, the power of pooling the resources of more and more people diminished. It doesn't work. Which isn't an issue yet, because there's still more people.
Then there's the question of how many other species actually think of having fewer offspring because of some abstract idea or concept. I'd say few, if any. They have their offspring, some percentage dies for whatever, they adapt, and life goes on. Humans, we want the best of both worlds. We, or some of we, want there to be fewer people, but each person gets the resources they need. We want to take the dying part out.
However, we're not content with that being it. We want to grow and progress, as an end in and of itself. We want to do more than we're physically capable of doing, and I would say that is really the fundamental issue. That's what makes us do what we do. Our imaginations are unlimited, but we're trapped in limited bodies. The only way to extract ourselves from our physical limits is to do what we've been doing to the planet, because we think in an unlimited way. We don't accept that we can't do X. We find a way to do it. Yet, physical reality is limited, and that's why we can't do anything without there being a downside or cost to whatever we do.
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