Population, economic growth and ecological damage - a peek under the hood

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11. Different regions have different demographic influences.

I would expect the USSR example to hold true for the industrialized West, but I don't know how much cultural memory of pre-industrial times is still embedded in Asian and Indian culture. Industrialization is a powerful force that not many regions have escaped.

I try to present alternatives to the revealed wisdom on population growth, in order to demonstrate that there isn't one single factor or even a single set of factors that is universally applicable in times of population decline.

My position is that humanity is at the top of a "plague species" population spike, and is probably within a few years (decades at most) of seeing that curve inflect down - with bloody little we can do about it, or time left to do it in. How the descent unfolds will be interesting to watch, but impossible to predict in any overall way.