and point to me anytime in history this has occurred?
the global population continues to rise - mankind is not in danger of extinction. we are increasing in number, not going down.
One cannot compare subsistence living or even starvation, which was the lot of humankind for millenia, with the world we have today. The world population is predicted to rise to 9 billion and then fall off. The bigger problem is where the population fall off is happening, and that’s in all the major economies of the world, which are also those countries that have democratic, humane regimes. The population’s of many autocratic and theocratic countries are growing at a very fast pace compared to the former.