Say that when you're standing in water lines and food lines.

"Excessive" is relative.

Our grandchildren are going to curse us for our inaction. Billions of people are going to starve to death around the world if the projections are right.

The less people reproduce now, the better chance those in the next few generations have of making it through the bottleneck.

But I'm not completely heartless, so how about this. Every couple may freeze some embryos to be used replacing a lost child just in case.