I get happy when I hear that birth rates are falling.

It's a little ironic that the people most interested in birthing as many people as possible do not realize that birthing too many people is one of the most realistic doomsday scenarios.

There are some major quality of life and even survival benefits from self-regulating our population size and consumption habits.

John B. Calhoun's Mouse Utopias show us what can happen if we do not remain aware of the many issues that an exploding population of over 7.5 billion people can cause, and that is the 'good' case scenario of having unlimited resourced. There is also the chance that we will just follow a standard j-curve model

J-shaped growth curve A curve on a graph that records the situation in which, in a new environment, the population density of an organism increases rapidly in an exponential or logarithmic form, but then stops abruptly as environmental resistance (e.g. seasonality) or some other factor (e.g. the end of the breeding phase) suddenly becomes effective.

The declines are promising, but all the projections show that they won't happen fast enough. The declines are just decelerating population growth. Even if we stopped accelerating completely, we would still be cruising along at 7.5+ billion people, over twice the population within less than a century.

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