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I'll be more explicit then: the 'sustained growth' is almost irrelevant since per the usual Malthusian mechanisms it is quickly eliminated. What made Malthus wrong, what he was pessimistic about, was whether people would exercise "moral restraint" - in other words, he didn't think the demographic transition would happen. It did, and that's why we're wealthy.
We'll just evolve for restraint not to work any more.
Yes, that's the question: is the demographic transition temporary? I've brought it up before: http://lesswrong.com/lw/5dl/is_kiryas_joel_an_unhappy_place/
(Was there a SMBC comic or something about men evolving a condom-breaking mechanism in their penis?)
We're rapidly evolving condom-not-putting-on mechanism in the brain.