Just a few jabs at your opening paragraph. We can simultaneously have "too many people" and be on the verge of decline. We aren't there yet. Most countries are

Just a few jabs at your opening paragraph. We can simultaneously have "too many people" and be on the verge of decline. We aren't there yet. Most countries are still growing, just at a decelerating rate. And the reason isn't a Children of Men biological fertility collapse. We've spent 60 years telling women to get jobs, everyone to defer employment for higher education and housing age childcare are both the most scarce and expensive they've ever been. This isn't a mystery collapse. It's money. Always has been.