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Adding to this population growth in developed economies is projected to plateau then fall. This will reduce the pressure on natural resources needed to sustain

• tuatoru 3y ago
  Not just population growth, but the absolute population is now leveling off and/or declining in many developed countries. Some countries have tried to stave off population decline with indiscriminate mass immigration, but that turns out not to be a long term solution. The Kaya identity is relevant: impact = population × affluence × technology. If population falls slowly, then it's likely that growth of affluence will more than compensate.
• LinXitoW 3y ago
  That's irrelevant if the the resource usage is already far beyond what is sustainable. If you take on a lot of debt that you can't pay back every single year, claiming that you're going to stop taking on new debt is not the win you think it is. In addition, resource usage grows when peoples lifes improves. So we don't need to have more people, we can just give more people basic rights and have economies like India grow. Their consumption of luxuries like meat is constantly rising, because more people can afford it. An extreme example (from memory) is Ghana. One american uses as much CO2e as 200-ish Ghanans. Imagine a miracle happens, and we stop with the neocolonialism. Suddenly, Ghanans can afford the basics, and they use twice as much CO2e pP.