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Yes, overconsumption is the problem, but think deeper.
The major problem with overpopulation is that it neccesitates greater control in people's lives. As people get more numerous, they want more rescources, and someone has to dish it out, free market or what have you. Of course, when you give someone that power, it tends to go to their heads, and then everyone becomes wards of the state.
We really need to reevaluate our moral obligation to save every single human life that exists. What's the point of saving some people's lives if you're going to destroy humanity in the process?
BTW, the only thing that america consumes that is in any kind of short supply is Oil, though it can be argued that oil is neccesary to grow all the food that people need.
Really, if we try to save someone's life, we're causing a problem in that we have to feed all the children that they will have and all their children.
If we try to redistribute all the food in the world, cutting the rescources used to grow beef and hamburger and feeding everyone in the world rice and beans, what about the americans who are so used to eating meat with every meal? They'll get pissed off and send their military to take it back.
It's not fair, but the world isn't fair. It can't be fair until we've conuqered the problem of scarcity. Only when we can extract energy from, say, stars and manipulate matter any way we want to create hamburgers for everyone, so everyone can get fat as hell, and then Zambians can sue McDonald's as well as the scientist who invented the technology to do it for making them fat.