Humans on Earth are analogous to bacteria in a petri dish, subject to the same limits on resources and unlimited growth. https://www.thoughtco.com/bacterial-gr

Humans on Earth are analogous to bacteria in a petri dish, subject to the same limits on resources and unlimited growth. https://www.thoughtco.com/bacterial-growth-curve-phases-4172692 https://www.thoughtco.com/bacterial-growth-curve-phases-4172... Yes we can go ahead blindly, and destroy our living space and therefore our viable numbers. Or, we can control our growth, and bring it back to sustainable levels. If we destroy our environment (pollution, climate change, overfishing, etc), it will hold less people sustainably than if we don't destroy our environment and reduce our numbers voluntarily to those current sustainable levels. But, as I indicated above, humans are incapable of acting in their own best interests and it will happen forcibly by Nature and not to our liking.