Not actually true, unless your means of supporting people includes provisions for the extravagances of carbon-based energy and huge amounts of inefficiency everywhere in the supply chain.

If we want to carry on with capitalism as we know it now, yes. And you know it’s going to be the elderly, sick, disabled, among the work class population that need to go first. You know, those who can’t be forced to work. It’s not the poor working class populations wealthy right-wing policies are asking to have more babies.

The world is already on track for around 10 billion people anyway, because there are already enough young people I’m developing nations who we expect to have families of their own in the next few decades.

So good thing we could carry that many people sustainably if we get our shit together.