We don't, and the global population rate is poised to level off in 50-100 years anyway. Chasing the growth dragon is nice for the elites right now (and sold to

We don't, and the global population rate is poised to level off in 50-100 years anyway. Chasing the growth dragon is nice for the elites right now (and sold to us as a virtue and/or "good for the economy"), but it's unsustainable in the very long run, and has consequences in the short-run at certain thresholds. Always a source of amusement because the absurdity of perpetual growth is gleefully acknowledged by the left, but as it pertains to population, the blinders go on. We have two potential paths as a society between a return to Serfdom, and a future where people still own things.