I would say yours is the invalid comment since it comes from false premises.

I disagree. Historically, when there are not enough resources for the population, there have been famines and wars. People died until population was again sustainable. It was the green revolution that increased the potential to feed population, not nuclear energy. In fact, nuclear disasters might have poisoned resources like (drinkable) water. You might want to read about those things.

Of course, science fiction have already wrote about what would happen when this happens again (soilent green and other "nice" ways of cannibalism).

The fact that you think that "she is the one who needs to change" is the real problem, not low birth rates.

For example, you talk about "devaluing children", when what it has happened is just the opposite. In countries with lower birth rates, people invest higher on children. They educate them, send them to school, feed and dress them well, dedicate time to them. Hence, their "cost" is higher than countries where children are put to work and are considered a resource. People who chose to have fewer children because they "can't afford them" value them on their own. While people who say things like "god would provide" or "we would see", etc, might not be able to take care of them. Countries with that philosophy usually have higher rates of malnourished children. That should be a "hint".

In fact, what this article and comments are saying is that many women are perfectly ok with lower birth rates. It is the men who complain while at the same time, deciding that it is woman who should change.

You know, maybe it is men who has to change and either make it easier (more affordable child rearing, do their part of the work by taking hits on their careers, etc) and reducing the risk of children not being properly feed, dressed, housed, educated etc. In fact, things like university cost might be impacting on how many children medium class have. Just saying.

For the record, if the "constant inventing of new things" guaranteed feeding children, this won't happen:

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition

I think it makes no sense to say in the same paragraph that inventions would fix the problem and at the same time that you should care about the future, since many times inventions are made by people who can anticipate future problems.