Comment by toomuchtodo

Current global population is ~8 billion. Momentum will take us to ~10 billion by 2100. Will it be a challenge to manage this rapid population decline and attempting to provide real, meaningful community support [1] and social systems [2] to potential parents to encourage them to have children (in order to raise the total fertility rate to a steady state level)? Certainly, without any doubt or hesitation. We spent up a credit card balance of sorts with a ballooning global population, that debt will need to be paid back in various ways. But extinction? Hardly.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/baby-boomtown-...

[2] https://ifstudies.org/blog/pro-natal-policies-work-but-they-...