Photuris

I guess. But I think we can do a soft and gentle landing (settling on 2-4 billion, eventually, once everyone sustainably maintains 1.5 kids per family on average) rather than a hard and abrupt collapse. I don’t think we’re stuck between all or nothing here.

Right!!!

Sure, but with fewer people overall, there will be fewer houses, attics, and roads being built in the first place.

This is not a “crisis.”

The only major challenge we face with falling birth rates is figuring out how we care for the elderly. Ok, that’s something we need to figure out and get right.

However, otherwise, falling birth rates is a good thing.

We simply don’t need 8 billion+ people on planet Earth. It’s too many.

I’d rather future generations maintain a smaller population, and enjoy a better quality of life overall. They’d have more space, more clean air and clean water, bigger national parks, fewer crowded spaces, less congestion and traffic, more trees, fish, birds, and critters, and bigger plots of land with more distance between neighbors.