The planet will always be able to sustain a larger human population, so long as that human population is willing to accept worse living conditions.<p>How bad do those living conditions have to get before people will be comfortable taking steps to limit the growth of the human population?<p>Intelligent people read articles like this as if it's some great leap forward for humanity, so apparently having to eat bugs all day isn't bad enough.<p>Are any living conditions bad enough? Or are we just going to keep expanding into the 10s of billions until human life itself is devalued to nothing, and we can't afford to eat anything but bugs?