"His new strains of crops saved about a billion lives"

Yes, but with the extra 1 billion humans on earth, how many more animal species will be pushed into extinction each decade? How many more acres of rain forest will be destroyed every week? How many more barrels of oil will be pulled from the earth and burned into the air?

I'm personally against mass-scale chopping, burning, and killing, which I know that more people on this planet leads to.

Maybe the meme "the human species must expand at all costs" needs an evil check.