[roenxi]

I think your comment is pretty reasonable, but I really can't resist making this observation.

> It will put very strong pressure during the transition...

As opposed to exponential growth? With the number of people we've got wandering around, we're one slightly-worse-than-COVID disaster away from 100s of millions to billions of people starving to death. An outcome like Japan's is significantly better than what is likely to happen in Africa.

[nextaccountic]

The human population growth is not rising exponentially, the growth is actually declining since the 1960s and by 2100 we may not even grow anymore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth#Population_g...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/worlds-popu...

[onikolas7]

No, I agree, it is the sensible thing to be doing, but it looks like we are at a point where radical short term fixes are needed.