Dark Prince:

> Of course excessive population creates many other problems as well. A common argument is that there are enough resources to sustain an even greater population.
That may be the case with less waste, but that's an ideal that doesn't exist with capitalist economics. In an ideal world nuclear power too would be safe, but we don't live in an ideal world.
Medical advances have greatly reduced infant mortality but have not reduced birth rates. Maybe starvation is the solution rather than the problem.

We could just skip starvation altogether and accelerate things a bit. We can take those nukes that plague our not-ideal world, and then use them to nuke the poor out of existence. We would solve hunger and poverty in one go!

Of course, there is another solution. Give people a good sexual education, make contraception widely available, teach men to accept vasectomy as a safe, cheap and viable means of birth control, accept abortion as another means of birth control, etc. In general use aggressive education and family planning.

But then, the Pope says condoms and contraception are wrong. Nobody wants abortion on religious grounds. Sexual education is wrong because it tells young people how to have sex without getting pregnant. Family planning goes against Genesis and the commandment of being fruitful and multiplying. It generally goes against religious principles.

So on religous grounds starvation is more acceptable. And using the nukes even more so because it spares the poor the agony of a slow death.