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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.

Dude, a guy named Constantine literally started this modern Christiandom train rolling with his “Hey guys, I just met Jesus, and he told me I should be in charge now. So, I’m king, ordained by heaven, and we’ll enforce this new order with lots of violence.”

And he and his successors then proceeded to conquer territory, and then mint coins depicting a soldier holding a cross and smashing the head of his enemy under his boot. In hoc signo vinces.

And thus Christian imperialism, conquest, subjugation, and terror has marched along ever since. Lest ye forget the Crusades and the Inquisistion, for example.

Yes, there’s beauty and kindness in the Christian tradition as well. But let’s not pretend that it was all huggy-bunches-of-love until Calvinism showed up.