The World Is Getting Crowded

No one likes to talk about human population. Christians in particular are rightly wary of the ways in which population discussions have sometimes served to denigrate the value of human life and the blessing that children represent. Most of today’s environmentalists also ignore the issue, because it is too controversial. Others understandably fear that talking about population in the context of environmental challenges serves only to mitigate our own responsibilities: it allows us to blame the world’s problems on other people—or on too many people—rather than considering how our own…