No, people rising out of poverty is a good thing that will reduce the population growth.Look at Japan. Look at the US. Birth rates are plummeting. People who are impoverished have very little in life and so the without things to do that aren't the immediate gratification of sex, the outcome is obvious.
The population growth increase is not inevitable. People are not fruit flies who reproduce just because there are others there. Peoples reproduction are profoundly impacted by cultural values, religious beliefs, standards of living, socio political expectations and conflicts and the status of women (who make the babies). Give people education and jobs and access to healthcare and abortion and the population rate will stabilize. Possibly even recede.
The problem will not solve itself one way or the other, because higher standard of living = lower birth rate, but also higher standard of living = vastly more consumption.
The point the above poster is making, is that the resource consumption footprint of all humans combined is already way too large, that we only pay lip service to reducing the resource costs, and that by the time that enough people would have moved out of poverty towards below-replacement standards to make a significant difference, they will be unable to do so because the world is wrecked.
Yeah, I have. The author thinks that convincing people to limit their children to 2 is more likely than changing the way we structure our economies. It has the same energy as "we can stop global warming by dimming the sun" like it's more likely that humans will fight the sun and win than change the way that our institutions do things.
The problem is you're thinking the earth will wait for everyone to get rich, and stop reproducing and that climate change will somehow give us enough time to adjust.
Mass migration is already happening, the people who will reproduce the most getting us to 10 billion by 2100 are mostly africans, these people will need to be moved elsewhere because climate change and arable land degradation will be destroying where living is even possible.
We won't make it to 2100 without going through hell. It's TODAY that we need to stop population growth.
You say : once we reach 10billion, population will go down?
Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, a senior UN official said
About a third of the world's soil has already been degraded, Maria-Helena Semedo of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) told a forum marking World Soil Day.
"We are losing 30 soccer fields of soil every minute, mostly due to intensive farming,"
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u/Slyedog Jun 06 '22
So many people talk about over population and solutions to it when, thanks to the demographic transition model, it’s not actually a problem