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Yes. This is what happens with human societies without technology. This also happens in animal populations. As we are seeing now, when a society reaches a certain level of technology and medical care that ensures a very high infant survival rate, population growth tapers off and can stagnate. That's the way you prevent overpopulation.
The idea we can restrict breeding when we've regressed in technology is just a way to ensure genocide through sterilization, killing infants, punishing parents, and the other ways we've seen humans try this very thing. It doesn't work and leads to ethnic cleansing and terrible abuse by the elite classes. It's like suggesting we use eugenics: it doesn't work.
To be fair, the reason we haven’t overpopulated the shit out of the planet is because we lack the time and resources to raise kids. In the event that people had enough time and money to raise families, we’d probably cross replacement rates once more.
News Flash : we already have overpopulated the shit out of the planet.
Not if we try to live sustainably, which we don’t.