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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
A lot of the world's issues are due to overpopulation in 3rd and 2nd world countries. I was astounded to learn that India recently took over from China as the world's most populous nation. If you've ever watched any videos from India/Pakistan, you can see the tremendous amount of fuel, emissions, and population that come from their day to day driving, street businesses, and industry. The migrant crisis in the west is heavily due to unstable and poorer countries with too many people with too few opportunities. That's a whole other thing in terms of how it came be fixed.
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India's birth rate is below replacement.
Getting people out of poverty corresponds to the dropping birth rates we see around the world. The population thing seems as if it will take care of itself.
One massive benefit of a growing population has been more nodes of innovation. More people in a position to think about important problems rather than scrounge for food leads to more advances.
Now that we are facing a flattening/decreasing population, we need to figure out how to get more people in a position to contribute to innovation.