A good article, but you have the wrong “ism.” While socialism is certainly horrid, the cause of many of today’s population woes is feminism. Women’s talk of loving children and wanting to have them has always been just that, talk. Pretending to be positive about something you couldn’t avoid was making the best of a bad situation. Having kids takes a hell of a toll on a woman’s body, not to mention a risk of dying in childbirth, then decades of work raising the kids.

When feminism gave women greater choices by replacing the need for a husband with state support, and by providing convenient birth control and abortion all bets were off. Women in developed countries choose to have less children, if they have any, and they have them later in life, when their eggs are less healthy. Women’s evolved tendencies toward narcissism, acquisitiveness, and hypergamy (which are adapative in the state of nature) become maladaptive traits that lead to massive growth of the welfare state, and sap society of wealth and social cohesion, making the population crisis even worse.

You’ll notice that you don’t see the population crisis (nor the runaway welfare state) in countries where women are denied power, denied birth control, denied state support, and denied access to abortion. Those countries have other problems, but having children isn’t one of them.