Canada's Ideal Population - What Is It? and How Should It Be Achieved? Population growth, is it desirable? So many things run through my mind when I ask myself that question. I believe that I would desire a higher population , but to an extent. Too high of a population would spell disaster in many ways. In each geography class I've taken, we have always covered the issue of our earths natural resources. And how if we're not careful and learn to conserve, we'll run out of them. Many people have been saying this for a long time, ....