Exactly. Just a few years ago people were panicky because earth cannot support the "billions and growing" human inhabitants. Don't forget every human conceived

Exactly. Just a few years ago people were panicky because earth cannot support the "billions and growing" human inhabitants. Don't forget every human conceived less on earth also means fewer cars, plane trips etc. We need to change from a growth-oriented capitalist consumption economy to an elastic (robust against dynamically growing and shrinking) sustainable economy. Part of this is to chain the attitudes about consumption, but part of it is also re-organizing production and supply chains after globalization in ways that ensure goods are produced as locally as possible and as globally as necessary to reduce transportation pathways.