Did you really believe that for any sort of complicated problem, the answer could be that simple?
I did not mean to portray population as the ONLY cause, even implicitly. But I believe its one of the biggest factors! Any society faces multitude of problems which, at any given time, are in sory of dynamic equilibrium shifting focus from one problem to another.
I do not negate that other problems could be playing an important role but its just the matter of ones perception.
P.S: When I said population, I meant population density. It is my understanding that whenever we talk about population in terms of problem, we always mean population density. Thus, looking at China we find that its population density is about 360 ppl/mi2 whereas for Pakistan its sbout 545 ppl/mi2 and that for Vatican city is 4,862 ppl/mi2!!. All of your arguments are invalidated by these statistics.
Now replace population by population density in my previous post analyze the arguments again
All the Best~