Your analysis continues the time-worn condition that keeps humans victims rather than the intelligent, adaptable, proactive and creative awarenesses that we are. We’ve been brain-washed into remaining obedient and dependent kindergärtners rather than to freely make choices and change our world view.

Yes, we are animals hard-wired to procreate and wage wars (Kaku says we’re a zero civilization), but some of us are also self-aware and capable of self-transformation when we understand it means our survival. Recommended (satirical) reading: http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/02/24/the-problem-with-not-having-kids/

There are no natural checks and balances for man except war, disease. These are all too common. Mankind will not stop reproducing because we are hard wired to do so. We eat, we reproduce, we create and we destroy.
That is Man!

To understand the true meaning of “Quality of Life” requires time and experience.

It is a very arrogant species (humans), who can discard another species (wildlife) and their habitats, and just hope that Mother Nature won’t bite back.

The competition for social “resources,” i.e. shelter, recreation, seats on public transportation, ability to drive from one place to another in a reasonable amount of time, moving around in a supermarket or grocery store, trying to find a campsite, etc. etc., has impacted our public places so severely that I sometimes turn and walk or drive away.

Sorry, your facts and statistics just don’t jive with reality on a personal, practical level.

Wild animals have learned a survival skill: hiding. I’ve begun to adopt that skill myself whenever and wherever possible.

And about overpopulation, some projections/theories say that the earth could support over 30 billion people. Population growth is projected to level off at a much smaller 9-11 billion.

Rather than population growth itself I would by much more worried about the pollution levels of any worldwide society that is so developed (birthrates tend to fall when a nation becomes high consumption/development) that there is worldwide population stagnation.