population stabilization

Population stabilization means limiting the number of children we have to prevent overpopulating the Earth.

Population stabilization is an essential step to take against runaway global population growth far in excess of our environment's carrying capacity.

Population stabilization is a gradual voluntary process people can choose by using family planning methods. Stabilization does not mean encouraging Malthusian "population control" methods that some claim are needed to reduce human population. The purpose of reducing the birth rate is to make people's lives better, not to take them.

“Present birth rates are bringing too many people into the world. The planet is filling to carrying capacity. If people do not reduce the number of children they have, we will face serious environmental consequences. By choosing to limit the number of offspring we have, we reduce the burden on our resources to more sustainable levels, ensuring a better future for the children we do have.”

—http://www.populationconnection.org/

“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.”

—Frank Herbert, Dune