Makes perfect sense if you dont really care about the iranians and just want to ensure continual conflict in the region so you can gain cheap resource access and can legitimize your authoritarian regime because your country is oh so threatened all the time.

Oh i agree of course, but i would hope a followup culture does not make the same mistakes we do, such as forming nations and ethnic groups. With such a restricted number of people there would be plenty of resources and space for everyone, and i would hope they could avoid our modern day pitfalls.

Those are pretty good points though, if our civilization ever collapses people really should do things different than us. Keeping the population in check to maintain ecological balance is something we practice on a regular basis on many other animals, it seems quite presumptious to exclude ourselves from that necessity.

That being said, i am also strongly opposed to the nihilists trying to convince people to stop having kids. The only people who would willingly do that for the sake of everyone are the very same people working to improve our ways, not the ignorant asshats. Those often make it a point to have as many kids as possible.