Pat Buchanan's "Death of the West" dealt with the implications, as did Mark Steyn's "America Alone".
Really? History says the opposite is true. There can be no sustained economic growth without population growth, and population growth in free market democracies during peacetime has always resulted in economic growth in the long-term. There is nothing more valuable than people.
Yes, really. Note the qualifier "eventual." History is of no use here, since at no time in world history has the world population been 7 billion people. At what point does economic growth stop because there are just too many? 30 billion? 2 trillion? 50 trillion people?
My point is, earth's human population cannot grow indefinitely, unless we figure out how to colonize other planets or something. At some point we'll either run out of food, or run out of room. Thus, eventually the never ending growth strategy to maintain economic health HAS to come to an end based on pure logic. Granted not in our lifetime, but it's an inevitability at some point as long as we're earthbound.
Pat Buchanan's "Death of the West" dealt with the implications, as did Mark Steyn's "America Alone".