The Black Death gave us impaired vision? I did not know that.

If you want to solve overpopulation then you have to reduce resources. So long as continue to increase the resources the population will increase.

The problem is exclusively a third world one anyway, where European populations are rising it is because of third world immigration.

As to Aid, well I've come to the conclusion that people should be made to stand on their own two feet, every time we interfere all we do is make ourselves feel good and create problems for the future. We irradicated Smallpox, I bet that hasn't helped the population crisis.