The Earth is pretty darn full already. I don't really have a problem with people not contributing to the global population issue. That whole "go forth and be fruitful" thing doesn't mean "go forth and be like unto rabbits". If you can't support a child, don't try to have one and take steps that help you not have one.
God gave us many things. One of these is (supposedly) sense and reason and the ability to apply both to not only the world He created, but the words written down by men.
Not really. The world could hold, or be made to hold, lots more people. By expecting all the various nations to populate up denser with people, especially by their own natural increasetheir very own children, the planet which isn't getting any bigger, could easily hold quite a lot more people.
And sex is all the more erotic, when thinking of doing one's part, to further enlarge the human race, for the greater good of the many.
There could become all the more places with lots of people, and fewer places far from lots of people. Let cities and towns, grow larger and closer together. Naturally letting not only world population, but world population density rise naturally, answers so many of the pressing questions. How are people to enjoy having all their children or "all the children God gives," in a world with so many people alive already? Well we could explore how to more comfortably and safely populate the planet denser. We could "scoot over" a bit, to find or make some place for our fellow man. Rather than asking people to go against nature and life in trying to prevent possible human life, people can simply live and breed in closer proximity to other people, on the global scale at least.
Many countries are already passing the "tipping point" of going from having multiple acres of land per person, to multiple people per acre. I calculate that India has around 3 people per 2 acres. While not all such countries are the best example of how to more efficiently populate the land, they do at least suggest the possibility that the human race was actually designed to potentially grow quite vast and dense.
Anyway, regardless whether some population phobics say the world is supposedly "too crowded" or not, I would like the prospect of enjoying having a "traditionally very large" family, and have no intention to try any of Big Pharma shoddy "birth control" methods. "No method" barebacking is natural and what God's commandment to Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, would seem to imply. Similarly, I imagine many other people feel or believe in some like manner. At the Walk for Life I attended to raise money for the local Pregnancy Care Center, and as a great social activity and place to meet people, some guy said they have 4 children, and don't use any birth control. So if the world is pretty darn full already, shouldn't we then plan for it to naturally grow even fuller? They say the world now has a billion teenagers, and quite many of them obviously must have come from large families and may much prefer to grow themselves large families as well. All those more people to experience life and all those precious souls coming to life, has got to count for something. And what's a few minor population "growing pains" compared to all the more fellow humans enjoying and experiencing life?
BTW, if I do those front yard baby announcement sign things, I would prefer the bunny rabbit version, not the stork version. As to suggest, "No, we aren't done yet. We plan to keep having more babies, until they just don't come anymore." And for the greater good of the many, I suggest that all my neighbors, people I know or might influence, and people in other countries, welcome the natural flow of human life unhindered, encouraging naturally large families worldwide. Widespread and persistant baby booms to go ahead and proudly fill up the earth with ever more people. Babies are the best possible outcome of sex, as while the reproductive urges are indeed enjoyable
temporarily, children generally last a lifetime, and make a profound impact upon the world.
I say when God commanded people to Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, that implied that it was God to determine the human population size, not man. Wouldn't our Lord be honored, to see humans actually obey one of God's commandments for a change, and for the Lord to return to a planet teeming and bursting at the seams seemingly, with human life? As the "religious" would say, it's all the more souls to populate heaven. As the sci-fi fans and pragmatists would say, it's all the more people to populate more worlds and drive forth the technology progress. And naturally growing more numerous, is great progress for the human race either way.