We need fewer people because we are greedily destroying our environment, the only thing that keeps us alive.
We do not own this planet.
We share it with every other animal species of which we are but one species.
We are no better than any other species, different perhaps but not better.
We are, in fact, the only animal species actively engaged in destroying our own environment for our own self gratification.
All to the detriment of the other species.
No healthy environment.
No healthy us.
Simple really.

Same story, ateday... only 35 years ago.

Now reread my last sentence in that comment.

WMT
Well done.
Sadly not going to change the mindset though.
So why do we worry?

"Once we stabilize our population we can be prepared for the 21st century of scarcities - and what should be a period of de-growth!"

"We need fewer people because we are greedily destroying our environment, the only thing that keeps us alive.
We do not own this planet."

"We are no better than any other species, different perhaps but not better."

The anti-population people are really misanthropes; they despise progress and prosperity which are the only checks on population other than the fascist tyrannies they envisage.

They really are pitiful little people who lack any confidence in the human race and seek only to denigrate humanity.

As for being no better than other species, I agree the misanthropes are no better and are in fact worse since they despise their own species; everyone else however are different from other species, completely different, and in fact we do own the planet.

Respected sociologist Frank Ferudi sums up the case for population control and its fanatics.

http://www.frankfuredi.com/index.php/site/article/3/

Even so, they will still get votes from those who want ASIANS OUT and who want to create Fortress Australia. Small minds desperately binding together, fearful of the world and of each other.

An admirable try, Mr King. But frankly, there's no point in having a discussion with these people, especially when you introduce facts. They are so convinced that every problem is caused by "too many" people, they have programmed themselves not to listen.

The naked self-hatred that shines through their every assertion - that we are "no better than the animals" is a classic - is typical of their breed. Although sometimes it is difficult to work out what it is exactly that they hanker for. They must have been at least this depressed since the Industrial Revolution - perhaps even since the end of the Dark Ages.

The tenuous nature of their position is clearer, when you ask them tough questions, such as "which would be worse for the human race: for everyone to have no children, or for everyone to have four?" Sadly, they don't have the imagination to actually follow through on these scenarios, and work out that if everyone followed their "no children" example, the last twenty years or so of their lives would be a living hell.