Should we stop using war as population culling of our young people?

(...) as tribes, governments and religions would have wanted to reduce the overrepresented male numbers, as compared to much fewer female numbers.

Yet, for all the official programmes and coercion, many poor women kept on having babies.

We continue to suffer from our success at populating every corner of the world with our species. The world is bearing witness to the systemic failures caused by the pressure that is put on our biosphere by the demand of billions of us, but most of us don’t view those failures as connected to the entirety of the growing modern human enterprise. We are experiencing many urgent problems simultaneously that can all be traced back to the forces of overpopulation. From the sixth mass extinction of species to our plastic-filled oceans, from natural resource scarcity to grinding poverty, overpopulation is rarely tagged for being the guilty party that it is. It can no longer be denied that it is pulling the levers of unsustainability behind a curtain of delusion. Mainstream media has become an expert at ignoring this issue, often called the elephant in the room.