Sadly, this sort of lifestyle is the best case scenario for the future, if “conservatives” don’t start to grasp pretty soon that population growth is not a good thing. Yes, we can squash more people onto the planet, but you can forget about kids growing up in freestanding single-family homes with some land around them that’s actually controlled by the free citizens who live there. Instead, highly-efficient, densely-packed living arrangements, which are invariably highly socialistic in political organization and regulation, will increasingly become the norm.
Depends on what you mean by population growth.
Population growth in western democracies is way down.
It is very high in third-world countries where the western democracies have zero input or control.
Actually, conservatives realize quite well that implementing free governments and a prosperous economy inevitably results in LESS population growth. The only places that are currently having large population increases are poor, uneducated, authoritarian nations.
Here's a hint---the Communist Chinese model is NOT one we want to emulate.
I think you must have just finished reading the “Population Bomb”. I hear it was a bestseller in 1968. For some reason its predictions never came true.
Once nations reach a certain level of prosperity, population growth seems to start to shrink. This introduces a totally different problem — such as the Japanese are now facing where they do not procreate enough to replace their population.
What's your recommendation, GS?