Well, forgive me if I assume that most of the people that I am talking to here on FR are "productive members of society" who should be breeding. LOL!
Conclusion, anybody with any sense at all knows that the resource base is finite ...more isn’t the answer.
Well of course, it's "finite". But when productive members of society quit breeding to try and make up for the high breeding rates of the non-productive, that's when we've really got problems.
I was raised on that Liberal idea of a human population explosion, assuming it was responsible NOT to have kids -- or have only one to make up for those who were breeding like rabbits -- when precisely the opposite is true. The better off you are the more kids you should be having because their productivity makes up for their use of resources and may even create resources that don't currently exist.
“It seems that humans find new resources or create them in or to sustain themselves — a complete contradiction to what most of us were taught to believe.”
It seems people need a refesher in Adam Smith. More people, means greater specialisation. Greater specialisation increases productivity. The most productive areas also tend to have high population density.