>> You imply that population will increase indefinitely > You imply that it won't. > I don't see a fundamental reason why humans would stop at 8 billion This

>> You imply that population will increase indefinitely > You imply that it won't. > I don't see a fundamental reason why humans would stop at 8 billion This is not a guess based on how we subjectively feel about the world, but the current UN estimate, based on a lot of data. "By 2100, the global fertility rate is expected to dip to 1.9 births per woman", so below the replacement rate, which is slightly above 2.0. https://www.livescience.com/65732-world-population-will-stop-growing.html https://www.livescience.com/65732-world-population-will-stop... https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/world-population-prospects-2019.html https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/world... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-population-is-projected-to-nearly-stop-growing-by-the-end-of-the-century/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...