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I think the Haitians eating dirt has more to do w/ the country being in the top three (they were number one a few years ago) most corrupt countries in the world. The current total fertility rate is more or less the same as the U.S. in the early 60s, but I don't remember anything about JFK extolling the virtues of mud cakes at the time. I also doubt that we could reasonably reduce population beyond the ability of people to hoover up more resources.
I don't think reducing population just so people can have bigger houses and cars and junk is good either, especially considering that from the POV of research, provided of course there's a decent quality of life as you mentioned, having more people is better than having fewer people. The more we know about the universe the better our odds of not being wiped out seem to be. Course, it's totally up to human civilization what it wants, but it seems really short-sighted to complain about population when a world w/ just a carbon free energy sector could support 8+ billion in a sustainable manner, and more w/ other measures. It's way easier, and ethical to boot, to switch to renewables at little to no long run premium, than it is to screw with other people's in the arena of reproductivity.
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