"Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague." -- Thomas Malthus **** Population has been on a steady decline since 1800. With a fertility rate of 7, it has sharply fell to the 1940 rate of 2.06. There was a increase in fertility from 1940 to an 1960 high point of 3.58 children. These numbers represent the average number of children per household. That number has continued to decline, since, with, minor pushes upwards to a 2010 high of 2.06, but, declining still again in those last 12 years. The fertility rate as of 2022 in North America has dropped below 2.0; Mexico holding number one position at 2.0, the US is roughly 1.5 and Canada has dropped to 1.0 and below...