You're half right, as "rich assholes" do pollute the world, but the corporate elite absolutely loves overpopulation, as it gives them a ready-made consumer base to import. Birth rates in Western nations are extremely low and corporations need "more consumers" in order to survive and hit financial targets.
Look at the stats, virtually all countries are at or below a "2" range for births per of-age females (even India is down considerably) and corporations complain daily about our "low birth rate" (like ToysrUs did) or our "aging population" (i.e. any corporate lobby group), and have changed gears to promote massive increases in immigration and population migration towards richer nations. It's referred to as "consumer creation" at the business level, and believe me, corporations are lobbying hard.
And that's my entire point, corporations are hellbent on the CONSTANT CREATION OF CONSUMERS, which is their most important index. Its not about world population, it's about the number who are active consumers, and how "rich assholes" manipulate the system to get richer and make the world a worse place.
What do you think this recent "population migration" and "diversity migration" really is? It's rich corporations using the overpopulation explosion in certain African and Arabic countries to bring in their excess populations and artificially create "more Western consumers" so they can hit their projected growth figures.
Once the "new consumers" get to Europe and North America, they automatically join the Starbucks masses and become huge waste producers and everything gets worse in an unending cycle... other than the big corporations, who reap the benefits of this constant Western consumer spike through "rich assholes-led" migration.
More consumers = more garbage, more pollution, more cars, higher resource use, less open land, but more and more profits to "rich assholes" who created the whole situation in the first place. It's analogous to the slave trade, but corporations now trade in the 3rd-world populace in order to increase their profits and shareholder equity.
I am not "blaming" 3rd world countries for having 8+ kids per of-age female, as I understand the situation is different there, but at some point the world needs to get overpopulation under control so the "rich assholes" don't have a ready supply of "excess population" to turn into "active corporate consumers".
I am living in a microcosm of this right now. We recently moved to a "new neighborhood" comprised of recently-built mid-size to big houses, and I'm one of the very few who isn't a recent immigrant - they're all nice people and it's been fun - I have to teach these guys everything from how to mow a lawn to getting an air conditioner to shoveling or snow-blowing the driveway - it's weird what we take for granted. Certainly no complaints about the neighbors and they're much nicer, quieter, politer, and more accommodating than my prior "native" neighbors.
But when I go out at 7AM on garbage day and see a long line of "new citizens" dragging their 2-3 bags of refuse out to the corner, and then realize this is happening all over the country, and all over the world, it makes me understand that "rich assholes" will not allow us to survive this, and I don't think many will see even the 25 years that most scientists give us.