Population Issues Still Matter

The majority of people born into this world will live lives of desperate poverty, ignorance and misery. It is hard to contribute to the species if your barely etching out an exsistance. And if the billions of human living in dire poverty were to improve their standard of living significantly, the cost to the planet would be enormous.
With population growth, there is more at issue than just food and water. What about all the human waste generated? What about sanitation and health? At, what kind of standard of living will most people in the world have? And, how will global warming effect and be effected by a growing population? We ignore this issues at our own peril.