The ideas put forward aren't well supported by relevant facts.<p>Humanity's population won't necessarily have a single peak.<p>And the author selectively calls out adaptations that are being thwarted by advances in modern medicine and science without acknowledging the possibility that we are adapting in other ways that aren't yet detectable; or at least not by a political philosophy instructor.
> According to UN population estimates, humans will reach their maximum population in 2086 at 10.4 billion humans. This number, large as it is, is still lower than what scientists had predicted earlier.<p>I'll recommend you to explore "IMAGINE THE POPULATION OF TOMORROW" <a href="https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/population-games/tomorrow-population/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/populatio...</a> and compare UN simulation and Free simulation. You will notice that the main population growth will happen in Africa.<p>Take the UN simulation and observe that the parameter "Number of children per woman" is expected to decrease rapidly.<p>What does it tell to us? We know that fertility rate of the population is highly dependent of the education level and by the access to primary necessities like clean water and well, waste disposal.<p>Can we expect this to be provided for Africa? Can we trust these UN models to be correct?<p>I hope so.<p>If you want to look what does it mean when these models are not correct then chose Free simulation - now the population growth is Africa is not caped at 4 billion anymore.<p>Unmanaged population growth paired with poor human development in Africa is something that really angers me. It is misery producing even more misery at high pace. Wealth accumulation is not possible as it is eaten away by the ever growing population. Normal aid is not productive as the ever growing population is constantly diminishing the result of the aid and the need for the aid is ever growing.<p>Let's take a simple example: COVID-19 vaccines. Providing vaccination for 500 million people (when we assume moderate growth from 220 million in 1950) would have been incredibly simpler than providing vaccination for 1.5 billion people.