Such behavior should be a signal for a helping agency to move in to assist that person into a setting where he or she can mend and be led into some form of productive work. Population Growth Reverend Malthus once worried the planet would become overpopulated. Actually, nature would handle the matter when the demand for food, raiment, and shelter outstripped the supply. Runaway population explosions generally occur among the poor. The notion that the planet is big enough to hold billions more people is in error.
Habitable land is finite and some stress is already occurring.
But the RIP isn't going to worry about it on the grounds the matter is insolvable as long as government experts pretend they can invent programs to alleviate overpopulation. Most government interventions create more of it, as public support of single teenage mothers attests. In 1850 one in four pregnancies was terminated by abortion. In 1950 one in four pregnancies was terminated by abortion. In 1990 one in four pregnancies was terminated by abortion.