You know, the population of the Earth has more than doubled since the day I was born. And even then, resources were stressed. Ecologist say that one of the largest extinction events in the history of the earth is ongoing right now. We are living right in the middle of it, and we are causing it, because there are too many of us.

When I was a child and a teenager, people were seriously talking about how to prevent mass starvation on its way because of Malthusian pressure. We dodged a bullet due to new agriculture techniques and better distribution, but we certainly have not over, the basic reality that food production increases arithmetically while human population has the potential to increase geometrically, unless we keep it in check.

Lower birth rates are a blessing, for humanity and for the Earth.

When I see Pope Francis deploring lower birth rates, I just shake my head. I already know he's not the cool pope, because I know how much he lies and how much he propagandizes about the church and LGBTQ issues. He talks out of both sides of his mouth, and he is not who the Press sometimes like to celebrate him as.

Two weeks before he made his insulting "pets instead of kids" remark, he gave a speech urging Italians to have more children, because the Italian birth rate was going down, which he called a "tragedy."

I'm astonished that he lacks the intelligence and education to understand that lower birth rates are a triumph.

But then, Catholic clergy tend to the astonishingly ignorant people outside the narrow scope of the judgmental faith they try to push on people.