[reagency]

Nope. Westerners with 2 babies consume 100x as much resources as rural Africans with 7 babies. And they can continue to consume more as the productivity increases. And we have room (in the population, not in resources) to double the number of high consuming people eveery 30 years for many generations.

[TeMPOraL]

The westerners aren't as scary as the developing nations are, actually. We're starting to care about our energy sources, (sometimes) pushing for clean alternatives. Compare with the rest of the world, in the process of rising from poverty. They need cheap energy, and they will need even more. What will they turn to? Coal, probably. And who are we, the rich west, to deny them access to things we treat as basic human rights - like wash machines or hot showers?

It would be in our best interest as a civilization to help them build solar and nuclear infrastructure, to skip the fossil fuels. But the way things look right now, I don't see it happening.