So we finally had a lecture related to the malthusian-ass overpopulation bullshit book I was reading.
Good News! Professor actually said that Malthus "was discredited" and not a good way to get a complete understanding on how our current situation is unsustainable. He mentioned that this population bomb shit (not his actual words) is something we may encounter out there in the wild and that's why it's one of the frameworks we read about, so we understand what people actually mean and why they're wrong.

Unfortunately,

Today I was going over my fellow classmates' threads on the discussion forum as part of our homework assignment and, uh... About 75% of them are convinced overpopulation is the actual urgent problem we need to address.

Yeah turns out if you make your students spend hours reading about scary overpopulation, a single comment about how it's bullshit isn't going to counteract that, is it.

Also of the 25% that is correct about overpopulation being bullshit, one of them is convinced the Boserupian theory is 100% true and technology development will "rise up" whenever necessary, to more efficiently produce like, food and stuff, so no need to worry or do anything.