We could just ensure the population stays below 2B. Education, emancipation of women, access to contraceptives and abortion, immunisation, and improved healthca

We could just ensure the population stays below 2B. Education, emancipation of women, access to contraceptives and abortion, immunisation, and improved healthcare for new mothers and infants: these are proven time and again to reduce fertility rates. There’s no sensible reason to keep using infinite expansion as a measure of the health of national economies. We should change the goals to improved access to services, and more even distribution of national wealth (ie: lower spread between richest and poorest). When we run out of fresh water, desalination should not be viewed as the answer but only as an emergency measure. Desalination requires abundant energy and pollutes the marine environment with over-salinated water. Recycling sewage I to drinking water only works as long as the equipment is maintained fastidiously and never breaks. Rather than producing more food, we should focus on producing fewer people.