A bit of history from the WordPress group ‘Overpopulation Project.
Some takeaways: ”Losing Our Minds, by Brad Meiklejohn, In the 1970’s the leading intellectuals in the United States were concerned about overpopulation. Fifty years later, the best and brightest minds in America now think we are running out of people. What the hell is going on? “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” – Ed Abbey”

”Fifty years on, contrast Holdren’s views on population with those of venture capitalist and tech entrepreneur Marc Andreesen in his Techno-Optimist Manifesto: “We believe our planet is dramatically underpopulated … We believe the global population can quite easily expand to 50 billion people or more … We believe not growing is stagnation, which leads to zero-sum thinking, internal fighting, degradation, collapse, and ultimately death … Our enemy is deceleration, de-growth, depopulation – the nihilistic wish, so trendy among our elites, for fewer people, less energy, and more suffering and death.” Nearly every day Elon Musk has another baby (10 at last count) and another delusional rant about the impending extinction of humanity. ” I looked this up and found: With fewer young people in a society, moral advancement slows, individual wellbeing falls, and we become increasingly vulnerable to extinction threats. And this from an avid tRump and project 2025 supporter.

” The brightest minds at California’s Stanford University now claim that “with negative population growth, the flow of new ideas goes to zero.” The sane among us know that creativity is not a function of human population density. None of the top 50 inventions in world history occurred in the last 50 years, and many of them, like language, the alphabet, gunpowder, and paper arose with less than 100 million people. It is equally plausible that human creativity has declined as population has increased. I’ll take Athens, Aristotle, Bach, and the wheel over Atlanta, Mark Zuckerberg, Beyonce, and the iPhone every time.”
We are not running out of people. We are running out of planet.

[overpopulation-project.com] watch the population clock (numbers are net) [worldometers.info]