My point is that in reality this does not happen: a certain level of technology/wealth/education (already attained in large parts of the world) stops population growing. It does not enable further expansion.
Well, we better hope that this trend causes the population to level off fast enough to avoid overshoot. Maybe we should be just a little bit curious about how likely that is. And we should remember to offset the population growth slowing with the fact that per-capita resource demand increases.
Where did I say that?
Here is my actual original point.
Well, we better hope that this trend causes the population to level off fast enough to avoid overshoot. Maybe we should be just a little bit curious about how likely that is. And we should remember to offset the population growth slowing with the fact that per-capita resource demand increases.
Let’s continue this thread here please.