Yes but: - I believe lowering the population density will not annihilate those benefits. Paris was still Paris with the half of its population, but you could f

Yes but: - I believe lowering the population density will not annihilate those benefits. Paris was still Paris with the half of its population, but you could find a pre-school much more easily 50 years ago. - the benefits of the current density can be achieved with a lower one given our current knowledge and technology - accumulating wealth is probably not as much as linked to population density (in our modern countries) as that we have added science (machines and software) to our optimized slavery and theft. - With a smaller population, we may be able on concentrate on quality of life. And education, which could lead to limit our current huge amount of wastes and appetite for superficial things. This could balance what we loose for a higher density population.