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http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-41931770/poles-told-to-breed-like-rabbits-to-fight-falling-birth-rate
A Polish government ad has used the example of bunny rabbits to try to encourage people to have more babies.
But it's not the only advert encouraging people to do it for the children.

For thousands of years, population control meant violence. War, famine, disease, and genocide served as the primary powers that nature and the state could wield to limit the expansion of the world’s human footprint. However, medical and cultural advances, such as readily available birth control and women’s liberation significantly changed the conversation around not only the ethics of population expansion, but also the available means of curbing it. Population Growth Fears In his 1968 book, The Population Bomb, bioethicist Paul Ehrlich outlined a doomsday scenario with predictions that the world’s population would increase to a point where all natural resources would be consumed, causing massive upheaval across the globe. More recently, researcher Travis Rieder, at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, argues that humans have a moral responsibility to limit the birth of children to protect the environmental stability of our planet. At NBC

As 1968 began, Paul Ehrlich was an entomologist at Stanford University, known to his peers for his groundbreaking studies of the co-evolution of flowering plants and butterflies but almost unknown to the average person. That was about to change. In May, Ehrlich released a quickly written, cheaply bound paperback, The Population Bomb. Initially it was ignored. But over time Ehrlich’s tract would sell millions of copies and turn its author into a celebrity. It would become one of the most influential books of the 20th century—and one of the most heatedly attacked. The first sentence set the tone: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.” And humanity had lost. In the 1970s, the book promised, “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” No matter what people do, “nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the

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As a lifelong surfer who has never lived more than a mile from the ocean, I heartily agree with every claim they make about the perils of overfishing and the destruction of coral reefs. I am afraid my young grandson will inherit oceans that are vast wastelands and never know the joys I experienced in the water over my 70 years. But like many environmentalists, the authors do not address the root cause of the problem. Why is there so much overfishing? Why are the seas acidifying? Why are coral reefs on track to collapse by 2050? All this is happening to feed and entertain people, the global population of which is increasing at an incredible rate. In 1947, there were 144 million people in the U.S. and about 2 billion globally. Just 40 years later, in 1987, the numbers were 242

In 1949 the doctor who delivered me held me up by my heels and gave me a hard whack on the butt. When I entered the world, I shared the planet with 2.4 billion people. Today, that number has swelled to 7.6 billion. In my lifetime, the human population has increased over three times. Population increase has been relatively slow until recently. Twelve thousand years ago, there were 1 million people. That number reached 1.0 billion people two hundred years ago. Current population projections place the human population at 9.8 billion in 2050; 11.2 billion in 2100. This rising sea of humanity is putting a strain on the earth’s ability to provide the resources needed for everyday life. Today, we are using resources 44 percent faster than what the earth is able to replenish. In other words, it takes earth just under 18 months

AdamB wrote:

In 1949 the doctor who delivered me held me up by my heels and gave me a hard whack on the butt. When I entered the world, I shared the planet with 2.4 billion people. Today, that number has swelled to 7.6 billion. In my lifetime, the human population has increased over three times. Population increase has been relatively slow until recently. Twelve thousand years ago, there were 1 million people. That number reached 1.0 billion people two hundred years ago. Current population projections place the human population at 9.8 billion in 2050; 11.2 billion in 2100. This rising sea of humanity is putting a strain on the earth’s ability to provide the resources needed for everyday life. Today, we are using resources 44 percent faster than what the earth is able to replenish. In other words, it takes earth just under 18 months [/quote

Face reality – the world’s population is growing

dohboi wrote:That sounds about right, but it would be nice to see a supporting link, if you have have one available.

World population at the end of the last Ice Age

Researchers say that the total world population at the end of the last Ice Age stood at between one and ten million people, after two million years of development. In the previous Ice Age, the human population collapsed to near extinction. This severe collapse indicates to some degree the severity of the climate conditions on earth, during an Ice Age.

If we fail, we will fall back to the 1-10 million population that the natural world can support. That's what is at stake, and our heart and soul tells us that we should not lay ourselves down to die and commit our children to death. Out heart tells us to love to live.