Yes but within reason, we are already using 36% of the world's non ice-covered land to feed 7 billion people, and by 2050 we will have to feed 9 billion. Population growth is decelerating but the population is still growing. Contrary to popular belief, we do not live in a world of infinite resources and the way we are going now, food will be one of the first to run out. The agricultural revolution nearly doubled food harvests and may have been a short term fix, but the use of fertilizers, pesticides and high yield seeds are depleting soils and causing long term effects on surrounding ecosystems which support agricultural land. Historically people needed many children to work the farm or replace those that would not live to reproduce, and it takes several generations to change this reproductive trend even though the need for such large families does not exist anymore. If people continue to have too many kids they are not responsibly preparing for the future as the world reaches its human carrying capacity. I say we learn to take care of the people we have now before introducing more into this world, since most population growth is now taking place in the third, fourth and fifth world. I say make a better world, not a bigger one.

I dislike the idea of removing the right for someone to have children, but this planet can't cope with the rate of birth. and with the constant race for life-extending medicines we may have to resort to extremes to handle the population of our planet.