Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse
People keep saying we can feed 10 billion people.  We can. But at what cost to the diversity of biological systems?<p>It’s not popular to say but we need to stabilize population growth and stop encroaching on natural habitats and put a brake on consumerism.<p>The developed world has in many parts allowed previously used areas to revert to a natural state.  However in high pop growth countries the opposite is happening as both thd developed world and developing world both need as well as demand more resource extraction.  We're depleting ocean fisheries, contributing to soil erosion, having water shortages, etc.<p>Stabilize populations to 1960s or whatever, but we need to do the same as we’re doing for pollution set a benchmark and aim for it.  Get those people educated, provide them with prophylactics and get them out of a pop explosion curve and get to ZPG like Italy and Japan (US as well if we didn’t import pop growth).