[GekkePrutser]

They should keep going down if we want to save this planet. Our population growth is unsustainable.

It'll cause some demographic issues in the short term but we'll just have to deal with that.

[colechristensen]

Advanced economies are only growing via immigration, there is no population growth through reproduction.

Also the planet will be just fine, it is us we’re worried about.

[GekkePrutser]

If you define the planet as just a rock spinning around the sun then yes.

I would define it as a complex ecosystem of interconnected species and we're doing a lot of damage to that that goes far beyond ourselves.