The Earth's Dying, SAY WHA?

After reading about Thomas Malthus and Esther Boserup's proposals as to the direction the planet is heading in terms of population growth, each make various valid points that are affecting us in today's society, but when it comes to a long term solution, I think the big picture is still being missed. When looking at the world as a whole, the crude birth rate far surpasses the crude death rate as the rate of natural increase soars leaving us with the issue of the Earth's ability to sustain our ever growing population. While Malthus suggests, although in a satirical tone, that we should invoke famine, plague, and disease to decrease the world's population, that is something that is out of the question in today's society where there are vaccines for nearly every sickness imaginable. Not to mention it's morally wrong. He also goes on to suggest that governments limit the amount of children that families are allowed to have, something like the One-Child policy that China has in place to control the worlds population crisis. But that once again raises the question as to whether it is morally right, and if it's taking away the rights of citizens of the world, children of the universe, to recreate and carry on their family name to the extent that they wish. Meanwhile, in undernourished countries, the infant mortality rate exceeds the total fertility rate which means more babies are dying than there are woman to create more children. The undernourished countries of the world do not make up for the rest of the worlds ability to reproduce, however, as Canada's population growth rate in 2012 alone was 1.1%. Boserup's ideas on the other hand is that there aren't too many people, but too little wealth. In many cases, that is true, but there are exceptions that can be made if the countries of the world put their ego's aside and focused on the growing problem at hand, which is the Earth's inability to sustain all of the humans that continue to populate it. Personally, neither point of view makes sense to me. My own point of view makes the most sense to me. I think that the answer to the world's population crisis lies in Science. If we were to invest more time in science and technology, and began speeding up the space exploration, there may be huge discoveries waiting just around the corner. If I were to tackle the issue of population, and wanted to get through to the people, I would probably study Astronomy, and begin the search for a planet that can sustain human life just as well as the Earth can, and I think that this is the most effective way to preserve the human race and move forward.