We don't have overpopulation. Statistics show that in the current mode of food production, we can support a few multiples of the population we have today. But t

We don't have overpopulation. Statistics show that in the current mode of food production, we can support a few multiples of the population we have today. But the economic system does not even permit supporting what we have, because it needs to make food scarce and extract maximum price for it to profit. That's why millions of tons of food rot in warehouses somewhere around the world to not disturb the food prices in the market while people starve somewhere else. In such a system, you can never solve overpopulation - the less people there are, the more system will try to make things more scarce to extract more profit from those people. A system built to be inefficient (from our perspective) so that it can be efficent from the profiteers' perspective