We need more babies. The recently reported fertility for the United States is at a historical low. Australia’s fertility rate sits at 1.6 children per woman. The most alarming stories spring from northern Asia. Japan’s fertility rate is so low that villages are disappearing. Across the Sea of Japan, South Korean women are having, on average, less than one child across their lifetime. Since Thomas Malthus propagated his “tragedy of the commons” theory at the end of the eighteenth century, those of a conservationist frame of mind have argued that birth rates are too high for our planet to ecologically…