Humans are just animals, and all animals are hardwired to proliferate until they meet external constraints (usually other animals that eat them or parasitize them, or exhaustion of carrying capacity). We were just extraordinarly successful because of our unique evolutionary gift of digital communication (language), which enabled us to communicate concepts, stories, and propositions, and not just present-moment relational information (e.g. mating calls or threats).

But as Lynn Margulis once observed, extraordinarily successful species never last, because they inevitably overshoot their carrying capacity--then their populations collapse. So will ours--soon, and worldwide. It won't be pretty, but there is no escaping it. So what CAN we do? Grow gardens, Grow community, and Grow awareness. That's all. And hope, thereby, to plant seeds of insight, knowledge, and compassion locally that can survive the coming global collapse.