Exactly. This push for economic growth is a recent invention historically. Let’s go back to not fucking over each other or the planet for money. We should aim for 2 billion world population in the next few centuries.
So go back to what pops were in 1930? If people would level off their mass consumerism and appetite to one up each other we could probably all live well at 1960s levels. But to get back down there it has to be carefully managed to avoid imbalances and collapses. Unfortunately history has some bad lessons for us to learn from; China, the early XX century’s idea of creating new super people and eliminating those of us who are weak or could have undesirable characteristics, and obviously worse. But, we do see education, especially for women along with jobs for them in the regular economy do lead to a quick decrease in TFR.
