Population growth is not the driving force of endless growth. That idea is part of the brainwashing by corporate america to blame environmental destruction on decentralized mostly very small polluting individuals.
Blaming the people rather than those addicted to infinite growth on a finite planet is a ploy to confuse the issue.
Americans and Europeans account for 70% of the world economy, which operates at a 1.5 Earth consumption rate. USers consume at an almost five Earth rate. That means if everyone on Earth lived like USers, the world economy would require almost five Earths for pollution recycling, water table, fish and forest regeneration, etc.
If one examines the US and Europe it is quite evident that only a thin slice of the population are responsible for a vast destruction of earth. Population that consumes at the less than one Earth level can grow in quality of life. Populations that live as the 1% are committing crimes against nature. The 1% who are ghoulish servants to a capitalism that cannot stop growing to infinity on a finite planet are the problem.
BDS all corporation that are destroying Earth. Don’t eat beef or pork. Take the bus or train. Turn your thermostat down. Does the product you are about to buy have any connection the US military, the #1 polluter on Earth? BDS