Here in Southern California we live with a shortage of water. Yet we continue to build homes in the thousands, year after year after year. We are convinced water rationing isn't an issue of over-population, it is really just about water scarcity. Nothing that a few dams and aqueducts can't handle. Any mention that humans are taking more than their share and one is likely to be labeled a tree hugger, or worse yet, a socialist.
Open space comes in many forms.
Recently, the biggest form of open space death has been in the news in a myriad of ways. Dr. Kervorkian is forcing the hand of those who would rather profit from the suffering of the terminally ill rather than forfeit the advantages that playing God affords them. By accepting the termination of an unwanted fetus, they would have to accept their own eventual termination. Even gay men and women want to make babies. I disagree with fertility clinics as well.