Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to try talking rationally about the problems and come up with an agreement of something like one child per family, vs letting people starve miserably? I agree that getting the different religions and groups to all agree on something isn’t going to be a likely thing, but at least trying to seems a lot more compassionate than seeing people starve to death.
Brent, a few inconvenient facts:
1) China has admitted that their "One Child" policy was a mistake on many levels. The problems it has created are going to haunt them for generations to come.
2) China and India, the two most heavily populated countries on earth, (over 1.3 billion people each) are both self sufficient in food production at the moment. In China, the big problem right now is that their grain surplus is so large they are worried that grain prices will crash which could limit production. India has a different problem: Farmers have been dumping excess production and quitting farming because of low food prices.
3) Texas alone could feed nearly half the world's population.