Yep, been hearing this population slowing/stopping mantra for decades. But no one told the species we've driven into oblivion, and continue to do so. Even if our growth rate declines, the numbers climb, because the base (7.5 billion) is now so large. In the meantime, the wild places that I knew and cherished as a kid, are carpeted with housing tracts and sprawling developments. The Third World is in worse shape, of course, with mega-million cities drowning in their own wastes.

Cheap energy and industrial agriculture have driven this, of course. Without massive energy and chemical inputs, the World's food supply would collapse; we've largely destroyed the natural productivity of the land. So we're already oversubscribed in the food department, and that's at current population levels.

Then there's the pollution, the poverty, and all the other elements associated with overpopulation.

No, I don't think that travelling the world, bumming help, is a strategy for a sustainable world.