Of course not. That's the whole point: it's an ongoing, cascading issue. The longer humanity exists, the better our medicine, the more effective our agriculture, the more poverty allows the population to boom without solving the larger problems of what to do for all these new humans once they arrive in much less than ideal circumstances. As time goes on, more and more people exist with fewer and fewer opportunities to access and leverage useful skills, decreasing the average effectiveness of the population overall.
It's all terribly Malthusian, I know – I look forward to a Dwarf Wheat-esque event that's beyond our ability to see right now.
Then you got carried away with your rhetoric earlier:
>Each successive generation ends up just a little more screwed than the last, as pregnancies roll into the mid-teen years, and generations start stacking. Women in their 30's, grandmothers.
It's all terribly Malthusian, I know – I look forward to a Dwarf Wheat-esque event that's beyond our ability to see right now.