I do not think we need to suggest such things. The problem is that we keep acting according to our own, misguided Human intellect that is inherently self-serving, self-justifying, and utterly subjective.

We need to learn to see things through Nature’s laws that govern balance and homeostasis and start living by those laws. That way we will integrate into the Natural system and start sensing it from within.

Then we will know what our actual natural necessities are, what our perfect, complementary role is in the system. And we will also naturally feel how many children we should have according to the balance and available resources of the system.

Only this way can we avoid the previous and present coercive, completely misguided attempts to force on people they number of children they can have or even forcefully sterilize, punishing people for having or not having children.

And again the “overpopulation” does not directly relate to the number of people living, but to our “footprint” which is vastly excessive, way beyond natural necessities. This is what is causing the problems we observe!