Why is population growth either a good thing or even necessary?
India is a craphole that all Indians want to leave. Why do you think they come here?
When the US had 100 million fewer people rents were cheap, home ownership was easy, the freeways easy to navigate and people were far happier. When did crowding become a desirable future?
The birthrate collapse is directly due to the high cost of family formation. Having eight kids was not unusual three generations ago. Then it was 4, then 3, now maybe one or none. Why?
The cost.
And then you have the twin evils: Ehrlich’s overpopulation BS and abortion. The easy way out! Why reproduce, right? Bad for the environment and socially limiting.
Better to just import the world’s excess. Best of all, they will get racial preferences for everything: schools, jobs, political spoils. Yet again another reason not to reproduce if you’re ethnic American! Your own government - you know, all the dimwitted brats who trailed you in school - made up a bunch of regulations that marginalized you in your own country in the name of “racial justice”. Translation: your kids come in last.
So why reproduce? How will you explain an insane world like that to your kids?
“Why is population growth either a good thing or even necessary?”
Because boomers need more suckers to keep paying for their social security.
When we had farms you needed hands to make it work...hence a lot of kids..hopefully boys as they are stronger than girls.