What exactly does life look like per capita if population continues to increase or stay the same? How is the solution to this problem not exactly what the Japanese are doing?
Time to kill off our pyramid scheme economic growth models and barbaric bronze age "be fruitful and multiply" religions.
Or you can just take more for yourself by stealing it from the less privileged and future generations, which seems to be the current modus operandi...
Indeed which is why I specifically talked of fertility as immigration is a thing. Irrelevant on a global level obviously.
> I expect poorer countries to continue to be baby factories indefinitely.
Highly unlikely. Fertility is getting lower everywhere. In all likelihood Africa will go the same way as South Asia as women education and access to contraception rise and children mortality rates drop. It’s already started.
How about we don't try to control the population (but still take good care of the environment?)
Perhaps by now we could already be building space colonies if it weren't for these kind of reactionary, knee-jerk responses to problems.