Unfortunately bringing a person from poverty to 'middle class' also increases footprints, for example last year something like 30 million Chinese moved into cities (call it growth) from rural areas, this was back when China was building the equivalent of an Australia per year in infrastructure, or a coal fired power plant every 10 days, I'm not 100% on these figures but I'm sure you can get the picture.This is what people can't work out or accept, the planet is overpopulated now, the only way 'we' as a species are going to be around in 100 years is if we fast become underpopulated, due to resource depletion the population has to/will drop by 3-5 billion as we plunge down Hubbert's curve, this will happen over the next 25 -30 years 99% of our food is dependent on oil and natural gas, take that off the worlds dining tables and watch what happens to adopted children. In the 1960s China had a famine with 30 million people starving to death, they had a saying back then "you eat my child and I will eat yours" ... same thing happened on Easter Island. Maybe adopted children will be useful for barter?
A suggestion, as parents are the ones responsible for overpopulation they should front up and do the 'Soilent Green' thing and volunteer to make room for the innocent victims of their ego driven breading ... namely us non breeders, and their children. Sorry mum and dad, for your child's sake you have got to go ;)

in May