Nope. Americans should be having more kids on average, not less.https://twitter.com/kaichoyce/status/1305776845053280257 …
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I don't think I argued anywhere technology wasn't helpful or poverty wasn't getting better, but what isn't clear is why does it require continued population growth over sustainability. Given finite resources and AGW, exponential population growth doesn't seem the answer.
If finite resources were the bottleneck, you would not see fewer people living in abject poverty after going from 1 billion to 7 billion. If agricultural productivity had stagnated, you would have. But more humans = more ideas, and more hands carrying them to fruition.
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I just don't see this as indefinitely true. And I think we have the ability to make existing people more productive and generate good ideas. We don't need to make more people to do it. Potentially brilliant people who could with many years are dying of malnutrition.
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I don't know how many people have to be born to get a Thomas Edison or Norman Borlaug, but insofar as it's possible to arbitrarily generate world-changing people, we still don't know how to do it. And that's OK, if the world is populous and diverse enough to do so organically.
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