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[–] Maxcactus 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

Some good ideas here. The big driver of this process is that we have exceeded the human carrying capacity of Earth. We could probably easily handle 8 billion humans living at rural Indian/ African levels but not 8 billion humans living at the North American or European level. If there was an analysis of the real resource/ environmental cost of maintaining a high consumptive human and compare that to the capacity of earths recharge and recovery cycles we would know what the carrying capacity is and shoot for maintaining that population level.