Too many humans or too few. Why can't it be both? My loose understanding is that modern humanity is a pyramid scheme where we always need more young workers t

Too many humans or too few. Why can't it be both? My loose understanding is that modern humanity is a pyramid scheme where we always need more young workers to support fewer retirees - not enough people. Meanwhile we're consuming resources faster than they can be replenished [1] - too many people. Without data to back this up, I suspect India, China and Africa are going to start consuming more resources (behaving more like the US) faster than the US (and the rest of the west) is going to cut back consumption, even accounting for shrinking birthrates. So on balance, I'm still more worried about the 'too many people' case. [1] https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/ https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/country-over...