Yep - the more you learn about people, the more you're gonna love your dog. Can't see any remedy - everybody bitches about growth, but damn few people are having fewer or no kids. I bet the birthrate would drop if you had to pay America through IRS to cover some of the cost to govt of your kid until it's a working adult ?? Oh well to paraphrase kipling-

"nations & empires have risen and turned to "spit" and history shows the naked cause of it - they fell because their people were not fit."