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Well I would think with the world becoming overpopulated eventually, it will soon become prosperous to have a declining population.
Please tell me what number equals overpopulation? If you think a declining population leads to prosperity? Please explain Russia. Declining birth rates, life expectancy lower than it was 25 years ago.

Poverty is mostly driven by things other than family size or national population.
Basically I'm talking about resources, there are only so much natural resources. We may not be anywhere near the threshold of being able to sustain the population, but if the population continues to grow at the current rate we will eventually get there. Look at population growth charts just over the last few centuries and development that has taken place. We will eventually run out of of room.
What resources do you think we are running out of exactly?

Food is infinite. We need some, we grow some. We need more we grow more.

You are confusing the affluence and greed of the Western world that wants unlimited fossil fuel to power their SUV's and bloated infrastructure and thinking that these things are essential to humanity.

But of course they are not.
Go look it up, type world population into google, or world population growth charts. Check the wikipedia listing theres a section forecasts of scarcity, overpopulation. If you look at the growth charts the recent spikes are exponential.