Overpopulation is mostly just a way to hand-wring about developing countries that aren't responsible for most historic emissions and have much lower per-capita

Overpopulation is mostly just a way to hand-wring about developing countries that aren't responsible for most historic emissions and have much lower per-capita emissions. It often overlaps with racist neocolonialism (see: Bill Gates directing global health policy and being really concerned about black birth rates) As for economic development I think the past few years have shown us very well (though whether or not people want to hear the message will remain to be seen) is that optimizing for economic growth and development (namely GDP) means you're not optimizing for things like redundancy and resilience and stability. Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of a cancer cell; it doesn't have to be ours. How many more "once in a lifetime" economic crisis do we get before we take that to heart?