The answer is that birth rate needs to decline and the human population needs to level off and then also decline to sustainable levels. We're in overshoot right now and no amount of economic development (read: growth) is going to fix that. We need degrowth, and the only way that is achievable without harming standard of living is to have fewer humans. The only way to have fewer humans without murdering or starving a bunch is for population to level and drop off naturally.
It's hard to even have this conversation without being branded an eco-fascist, but there it is. We are just too many.
It's hard to even have this conversation without being branded an eco-fascist, but there it is. We are just too many.