Population control?

Albion said:

Two thoughts to keep in mind with this subject.

The world's population grew at a very slow rate until about two hundred years ago when it began to skyrocket. No one who is concerned about overpopulation should take refuge in the idea that "humans have been around as long as science says and population hasn''t increased to alarming numbers still."

Also, natural disasters have never slowed population growth for more than a few years--not even the worst such disasters in human history. Therefore, a meteor striking Earth or something we've never seen could wipe out half the population of the planet, but nothing we've experienced so far would make any significant difference were it to happen again (and that includes some pretty bad epidemics and wars, for example).

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Yes, I meant to edit and include disease with natural disasters but didn't have time. Still with disasters and disease population increases.
I remember in my college history class learning that the Native Americans began to reproduce at a more rapid pace once they began growing maze. I believe it was said to be caused by the sugar in the corn. Perhaps since our sugar intake has increased to drastically, I wonder if the population boom and sugar increase were connected in a way. Just a thought since nearly everything we eat is sugar.

We are also doing "population control" with contraceptives, when a woman gets an abortion, when men get vasectomies and women get their tubes tied, when married couples abstain... Etc.
I don't agree with some forms of "population control" but more so, I find more and more every day that we are in danger of becoming "Idiocracy", but of course a real version.