Megan, what a brilliant post. Over population will inevitably get us one day because it always does. I have alway found it incredibly arrogant that we believe humankind has the ability to outsmart nature. Our technology does indeed allow us to push the boundaries, but ultimately nature will always win. The problem we have is all the time we push those boundaries to allow ever greater overpopulation, the bigger the fall when it does eventually come. We’d be better off thinking about the actual problems, rather than purely working out how we can keep our current economic model alive. The problem though, is it is our economic model which allows such overpopulation without anarchy. One day it will all collapse and the world’s population will plummet. It will not be pretty, but it is both inevitable and necessary. Nature will ultimately beat humankind into submission, hands down.