They are not necessarily coming. They are not here. They don't have to be here. That's just an eternal growth mindset, which is the heart of the problem. It's a terrible kind of circular logic: More people are coming, so we need more food. But it is "more food" that creates those births!
We could have faced our fate 30 years ago and stopped at 5 billion, and then hundreds of species, and millions of habitats would still be intact. But we did a technological fix via Norman Borlaug's horrific Green Revolution--billed as the modern way to solve the food problem, which should sound familiar: Just replace "modern" with "sustainable." And it had hideous, shameful ecological consequences on a planetary scale. And now the pro-growthers, some of them very well meaning like Borlaug was, want to do another techno fix. Do we not see the predictable pattern here? So let's not continue with "humanity must grow--it's inevitable!" any more. It's not inevitable. I pray we are smarter than that.
How much more can the Earth stand?
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