Your points are very well made.
Hong Kong and Singapore are also successful AND densely populated.
However, the (I would suggest) out of control human population requires RESOURCES....even the pen-pushers in the Cities that we've mentioned need to be accommodated, fuelled and fed.
Technology needs resources, construction needs resources, and people need at the very least food and warmth.
The planet just cannot continue to support vast numbers of human beings without consequences for us and our current way of life....let alone the other unfortunate creatures who are trying to co-exist with us selfish so and so's.
A brake needs to be applied to this PLAGUE of humanity regardless of WHY things have turned out this way, if only to reduce the pain for our children and grandchildren.
Otherwise we will go the way of other plagues.
