I AM talking “huge birth rates”, they are not associated with economic growth but with being an economic basket case.
A decline in the huge birth rates of the Third World, to something more rational, is a positive sign, not a sign of impending doom.
For the majority of humanities time on Earth the human population was less than a billion people. From one billion to two billion took more time than from two to three, which took more time than from three billion to four billion, etc, etc.
We are at 7 billion now, and can expect less time to pass before we reach 8 billion than the time it took to go from 6 billion to 7.
You are delusional if you think going down to 6 billion is a more likely scenario or a bigger threat than hitting 8 billion (and growing).
Absolutely delusional.
Absolutely delusional.
You obviously haven't read anything in the original post of this thread, or the articles I directed you to in posts 45 - 55.
I have not said anything like you are asserting here. You are setting up straw men, then claiming these straw men are delusional.
I've never claimed "going down to 6 billion is a more likely scenario ... than hitting 8 billion." You are delusional to claim otherwise.
World population might reach 8 billion before it starts contracting. It might hit 9 billion. We're in uncharted waters, so no one knows for certain where the peak will be.
But following that peak, all demographic indications point to a rapid population contraction.
You are delusional if you believe otherwise.
And you are delusional if you think that rapid population contraction will not have dire economic, social and military implications.