> we have less and less to actually do, but with a growing population. People will point out that the solution would be the opposite: a decreasing population.

> we have less and less to actually do, but with a growing population. People will point out that the solution would be the opposite: a decreasing population. But that is not cost-free and basically is swapping a set of problems for another set of problems. Even then "swapping" is a promise at-best. We could end with two sets of problems instead of one.