>It doesn't depend on high-consuming Westerners having children tho'.
Right, because everyone else wasn't going to burn oil and coal? It takes an advanced society to produce energy responsibly.
Also if we never leave earth we will die, so yes you do need humans to continue getting more intelligent. People with below-average IQ's breeding are just contributing to the problem.
It doesn't depend on high-consuming Westerners having children tho'. The human race will survive regardless of whether Western civilization does.