I love PJ and I expect many if not most Freepers will disagree with me. I also am a very-small-government free marketer. But of course the resources supporting those Fresno lifestyles are quite different from what’s used in support of Calcutta. The actual areas of residency aren’t really the major point.
I’ll add another. I love Mark Steyn, too. And he’s absolutely right about the Muslim population over-running those with our Western values. But simply out-populating heavy populators is not the answer. The issue is that our self-governing ideals are somewhat inaccurately boiled down to democratic, majority rule worldwide. Looking at the Israeli/Palestinian issue, such a simplistic application would be death to the Westernized government.
There was a time in the US when people wouldn’t think of having children they couldn’t support, and so men went about making themselves into good breadwinners so they could ‘afford’ to marry and have children. I’m not so sure that was such a bad ethos to have held.
You could say the same thing about Hong Kong or Japan - few indigenous resources but strong vibrant economies. The difference is free market capitalism. The problem with much of the developing world isn't that they are overpopulated - but rather that they are poor. The free market is a good way of making them rich.
Secondly, the whole concept of overpopulation is somewhat patronizing and paternalistic, especially when it's directed towards people who don't look like you. They are humans too and are motivated by the same interests as other humans even when it comes to reproduction. And even so, statistically, making a society richer is an effective way to control birth rates probably more so than just handing out contraceptives and sterilizing people you deem to be inferior.