Those countries have declining birth rates too. Why keep kicking the can down the road when in 50 years or less virtually no countries will be above their replacement rate? Solutions, not bandaids, are what need to be invested in.
Having a birth rate below the replacement rate is a good thing that every country should strive for. The earth is overpopulated and that's a major factor in almost every major global problem we are facing.
The earth is not overpopulated. There is enough food, water, housing, electricity, etc for all.
In fact there is a map that shows how the entire world's population could fit into Texas or just a few states based on population densities of actual cities essentially leaving the majority of the world uninhabited.
The issue isn't overpopulation. It's putting profits over people. There are plenty of resources, but we don't want to share, corporations want to capitalize, and enough of us don't have the balls to stand up to our governments to demand better.
We as a society have decided that even though there is a enough for everyone, we should still apply capitalism to things necessary for survival leaving those who are poor barely able to survive.
No overpopulation argument works if you take poverty out of the equation.
You could argue that we pollute too much and that if population increased the earth would be devastated. This is true, but it's not about the number of people, it's about the damage per person. It stems from our failure to demand from our governments that all products created are biodegradable or recyclable.
Not enough housing? I disagree.
Here is a quote from a fact checking website.
"Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S"
https://checkyourfact.com/2019/12/24/fact-check-633000-homel...
A city requires lots farm land to support. Sure you can physically cram people into a dense city but the city needs farms, animals, parks, land fills to dump its trash, power plants, etc.
