A country slightly bigger than Texas is projected to match the US's population by 2050

[Celerity]

27. We shall see. Climate change was factored in, but perhaps not enough.

An aside: I almost always cringe when I see people (this is absolutely not, I repeat NOT directed at you) talk (often in quite strident tones) about how most EVERYWHERE needs to lower their birthrates, and they almost always are speaking about North America and Europe as a prime area of discussion.

Birthrates in those two areas are already low, many below replacement level. The places that DO have far too high birthrates are rarely, if ever mentioned by that crowd when they start to thunder on about too much breeding going on.

I have brought it up to more than a few people and they have, on more than a few occasions, went bonkers with self-righteous indignation and denialism in regards to (of course, look at the chart of where the high birthrates are) the racial aspects of their (for clarity, these types are, for the vast majority, white people) ofttimes quite ferocious 'thou shall not breed' posturings and diktats.

As a PoC myself (mixed race black female) I often wonder the motivations of people who constantly speak about the need to dramatically lower birthrates but then focus (and incorrectly so, as our birthrates are already low) mostly on advanced, core first world nations.

There is not a chance that the vast majority of these types were/are unaware of where the birthrates are actually too high. I think they are likely fearful of being labelled a racist (which I find to be a problematic fear, as this is science and we all should deal with the actual numbers) OR (hopefully a small minority) they actually are racists. That second one is also quite strange, as most white supremacist types advocate for whites to breed it up, make a tonne of white babies.

Either way, I do not care for the wilful disingenuousness of the ones who do actually know the real stats (plus I obviously despise the actual racists in the mix, which I think and also hope are actually quite small in number in terms of the people I have have engaged with on the 'too high birthrate' topic). I find it damaging overall to dealing with what will likely be a real problem, a massive problem, very soon, as climate change really starts to drive migration out of certain areas.