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There are some credible estimates that population on Earth will peak at 8.5-9 Bln. (2050-2070). See: https://www.amazon.com/Empty-Planet-Global-Population-Decl

• mc32 7y ago
  That’s a lot of people consuming at 21st century rates. We’ve got to work to stabilizing pop to more sustainable levels where we don’t have further slash and burn land for farming and animal husbandry, resource exploitation at future rates, etc. Obviously messing with population growth is fraught with problems of unintended consequences (ala China OCP), but we can do better to bring effective zero growth to places experiencing exponential growth. (Women’s) Education, empowerment, opportunity, etc. This goes a long way. As with carbon emissions it could help to set a year baseline, or better calculate an optimal pop given natural resources and set incentives to stabilize at those points.