Just in my lifetime, the world population, an simultaneously the US population, has tripled.
The world's economic output and productivity are at all time highs.
Natural resources are at tipping points of extreme exploitation, and toxic output is causing other massive tipping points of natural destruction.
And somehow, the population going down is a big problem?
To put it bluntly, this is total bullshit!
If you take the world's most hateful pricks out of the picture, there is no shortage of anything.
The problem is not an availability of resources, it in who gets to keep them.
The best thing that could happen to ease the impact of our human footprint, would be for the population to go down.
Then we wouldn't have to tolerate some of the stupidest ideas in the modern world, like flying people to mars!
Fix where the fucking money goes! Then we can accept the population reduction for what it is, the greatest trend to emerge in recent decades...