Our "liferaft" earth, however, is becoming more and more crowded and tightly regimented, more "necessarily" organized.

Tighter organization around the world suggests that there will be some uniform collective solutions to the demands of the population-managing question.

OTOH, there are many effective and convenient approaches to limiting reproduction.

If populations won't voluntarily or/and democratically manage their reproduction, maybe more draconion solutions will become even more attractive to the "managers"/"handlers".

In Brief: I would like to be able to choose to live as a free independent spirit in the wild, but instead the civilized, regimented urban "jungle" importing water hundreds of miles (or reclaiming it from perfumed sewage) is a reality for most of humanity.

Wild animals, for their part, reproduce without evident imposed limitations, although some lesser animals, even, seem to have naturally found tacit solutions that prevent the waste of energy in the sacrifices of their young.

I don't necessarily feel superior to the female preying mantis, who eats the male after fertilization. (Is this true?) I found no confirmation of that, quickly scanning this wiki article.