>Declining pops diminish the need for expansionism and internal unrest. Less fighting over limited resources. This is probably true, but the problem is that it

>Declining pops diminish the need for expansionism and internal unrest. Less fighting over limited resources. This is probably true, but the problem is that its logical conclusion is the literal death of everyone. Stop anywhere short of that, and people will return to the point where they're no longer too preoccupied with avoiding imminent death to compete for resources. At that point, the less fighting is unlikely to be less per capita, and the only good thing to say will be that technology will have regressed so far that we won't be able to fight and kill very efficiently.