Disappointing for this viewpoint to persist in a world exceeding a majority of planetary boundaries and carrying capacity when half the global population (4B vs 8B-10B) being steady state (or perhaps a bit less, depending on where the total fertility rate lands) would be just fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day

Of particular note is the the author’s mention of new life potentially having less value (“slumping”); on the contrary, there is plenty of life today that is already treated as low value with no one coming to help. But “more people please,” for equal helpings of economic and ideological reasons.

Random example: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/suffering-silence-10-most...