Asians are far ahead of any other ethnicity in terms of population numbers, and the predominant geological factor is the small size of the nations, except of course China, but they only live in a fraction of the space of China, as it is mostly desert. My location is Oceania, which does not even show a lift. In fact when you consider the incredible ammount of space that is not even as densely populated as most of Asia, you must agree we simply do not adapt to the places we could be living, if we could surmount the challenges of a harsher environment. It is of course possible, humans are lazy and like insects drawn together around light sources, which are to them, the prime real estate.
Overpopulation is therefore a myth, although strangling resources from an over density in any one particular area, is of course a very real threat, what people must realize is there are solutions we are not even giving enough voice to, ideas like living underground has proved to be effective for thriving ancient cultures, ideas of the future include concepts like living underwater. And we can convert the outside surface area of skyscrapers into farms. There is space even where there is no space, and humans must simply stop relying on centralization and remember how to disperse into a more even locational spread, the way a tribe populates a country, that does not build towns, we need to do that, whilst keeping the concept of towns, only to convert the idea of using most of the land to farm and cramming most of the people into the cities. We need to cram farms into the cities, wherever they will fit, and let people live and develop in the spaces we are current using to feed food farming conglomerates, who have unbalanced the resources of the whole world, with non sustainable farming concepts, because of mainly, I believe, the dependance the western nations have developed on animal products. I am a vegan and for me and every other vegan in the world, it would make infinite sense to stop growing food to feed animals you forcibly breed, who also require fresh water and a farmable, livable space. Stop forcibly breeding animals and most of the land that is either keeping them or growing food for them, people can easily live on. Crammed cities led to the bubonic plague, farming animals leads to genetic allergy; vegan truth can eliminate both dangerous concepts from the human state of living.
Imagine the tallest, most expensive, skyscraper in the world, changing to house on every level and even the outside surface area, hydroponic farming. Then all of the land which was used to generate resources for the people living in the skyscraper, they can now easily live on. Simply reverse the concept of the attainable for some, into the most efficient model for all.
A major generator of conflict is the people who generate food on land for people in the westernized world. It is not just that, but also the generation of other resources, like rubber as a good historical example, which killed millions through slavery in Africa and Vietnam. You can grow almost anything that comes from the environment inside a city, and go and live back in the environment we now do not need to restructure into mass farming, which creates burdens on the people forced into it and has led to the Vietnam conflict of the seventies and the beginning of world war one. Once you come to the realization that almost everything made specifically for the idea of city living, is a plastic luxury not afforded to, or by people in rural areas currently being used to sustain the cities, you will see the primary divider of humanity is not religion, but economy.