There are some realities about the problems caused by populations of the size we have now that simply cannot be “technologied around”. The wealth of the world is profoundly unequally distributed and if we address this, overall consumption would radically increase as would the burden on the planet’s resources. And there are limits to our ability to move around and find space for this many people to live (mainly in cities) in a comfortable way. Population decline needs to be managed to ensure it does not happen too quickly for our systems to cope and will eventually need to be encouraged to “level out”, but only once we have established a path is set towards a human population which can live without overstraining the planet’s finite resources. We have been fairly fortunate that for the most part our productive capacity has more than matched our population growth but we have no convincing guarantee that this would continue indefinitely while reducing ecological damage at the same time.
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