The alternatives that you listed seem likely to eventually lead consumers to stop consuming a product. Population growth, on the other hand, does not. Unless,

The alternatives that you listed seem likely to eventually lead consumers to stop consuming a product. Population growth, on the other hand, does not. Unless, of course, we reach the inevitable point where resources become so scarce that no one can consume anymore. But that future is still distant enough to be systematically ignored. Hell, even climate change is still being barely addressed.