Agreed! A great resource on the subject is Countdown by Alan Weisman. I did a few podcast episodes on my Leadership and the Environment podcast on population:

Agreed! A great resource on the subject is Countdown by Alan Weisman. I did a few podcast episodes on my Leadership and the Environment podcast on population: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/310-the-start-and-end-of-any-serious-conversation-on-the-env https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo... https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/294-population-how-much-is-too-much https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo... https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/250-why-talk-about-birthrate-and-population-so-much https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo... https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/248-countdown-a-book-i-recommend-by-alan-weisman https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo... https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episodes/251-lets-make-birth-control-only-a-finance-issue https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo... http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/alan-weisman http://joshuaspodek.com/guests/alan-weisman For those who think we can grow forever, Tom Murphy's Do The Math blog covers it in his post Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist