Living in a better world means considering our planet as a global community. We are becoming increasingly dependent on people on the other side of the planet. Concurrently, our ability to communicate world-wide has reached a degree unprecedented in history. We can video chat with our friends around the globe in real time. Email is received instantly. And in small villages, where there may not be running water, there are cell phones.
Human knowledge has allowed us to invade most of the world in search of resources. While we have not yet exploited all of the worlds natural resources, we are coming to a point where we no longer need to focus on expansion in terms of the geographical area that we, as people, occupy, but on expanding the ingenuity which will allow us to make better use of the resources we are aware of, and find more resources beneath our feet. As a global community, and with this in mind, we must look at population growth, which is no longer a tool to allow us to invade regions rich with fresh resources, but as a burden. "More with less" should be the motto, instead of "more with more."
To develop a population of sustainable size, we must look to education. Educating the masses will allow people to make smart decisions about raising families. It will increase ingenuity in developing countries, allowing them to responsibly develop their natural resources.
Educating women may be one of the most effective means of population control. First, educating women about their bodies will help prevent unwanted pregnancy. This issue gets bigger when we thing about many religious values (particularly the Catholic Church doctrine of "wasted seed.") Most importantly, educating women will allow them to pursue careers of their own, lending invaluably to increased economic ingenuity, but also to the desire for a more manageable family size.
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