Although it is true that 320M Americans are far too many to have any meaningful representation from a mere 535 politicians of the Congress, I'm not really sold on striving to maintain (or to achieve) Democracy: it's been corrupted by American money long before any FSB meddling; population problems won't be fixed at the ballot; ending the destruction of Nature won't be up for a vote, and cannot be allowed simply due to a vote lost; keeping governors empowered means keeping citizens disempowered and subordinate.

But I do appreciate that you're not cowed from stating an obvious fact, that humanity is indeed overpopulating our Earth - though you haven't touched on *why* this is... The essential factor compelling this overpopulation disaster (among all the other crises) is Technology.

When you write, "Without resource pressure, without too many players in the game, we can finally start to cooperate," you suggest that cooperation is always an objective good, or perhaps that we haven't cooperated enough.

Cooperation waxes and wanes with competition; it is not the case that cooperation is always beneficial (nor competition always harmful), nor that cooperation can be constant and unending.

But I also have to wonder at how the awareness of a lack of 'resource pressure' would be known to the population at-large for all of human history in which this planet did not suffer human overpopulation: If there is a rise or fall in population - whether due to immigration or birthings - in a neighboring state, how would you know?

Nowaday, you might see mass-media or social-media reports and agencies giving statistics, but throughout humanity's 200,000 years existence we have typically known only what is observable, happening within some accessible radius of our own positions.

My point is, we don't even need to know all the statuses of the world's "resources", whether they are being over-taxed or are in abundant supply; we simply would not have overpopulation without the technologies of agriculture and transport and medicine, which all allow for more people to be born and to live beyond what is possible by their own natural innate ability (genetic design).

Like all other free animals living in Nature, we can breed without limitation imposed from a governing council above, and without knowledge of the impact of our living style upon other groups elsewhere or, say, the oceans worldwide (for an example), because simply by lacking the technologies to stave-off natural deaths or spur unnatural births, without the tech to deliver foods from afar, and lacking the technologies to over-exploit and overtax Nature, every rise in human population will soon enough be met with a food supply shortage and we will not overpopulate or damage our planetary home.

So how do we handle the problem of technology? Technology must be destroyed:

https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Tech-Revolution-Theodore-John-Kaczynski/dp/1944228020

(And it was *Bonnie* & Clyde.)