I heavily disagree.<p>It does have good arguments, but I think the reasoning take in account only a part of the problem, which lead to a wrong conclusion.<p>From my understanding, the statement is: Overpopulation is not a problem, it's the solution, because statistically we have more smart young people that improve and optimize resources available through discovery, reducing its impact on the environment (climate included).<p>It throw some arguments and datas:<p>- If we’d gone on as 1950[s] organic farmers, we’d have needed 82 percent of the world’s land area for cultivation, as opposed to the 38 percent that we farm at the moment.”<p>- resources are becoming more abundant and cheaper as the world population grows<p>- Especially since the Industrial Revolution, humans have been drastically shrinking their cropland use per capita, and there is no reason to believe this progress can’t continue.<p>----------<p>On this later arguments, it falacious as cropland increased A LOT since industrial revolution.<a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-over-the-long-term">https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/land-use-over-the-long-te...</a><p>Also, from the same source, it seems that optimization of land is not moving a lot since a decade or two.<p>----------<p>But then, to make all of this viable, because the author know about climate change, he make a very brave, optimistic at best irrealistic at worse, asumption:<p>- With clean energy technologies, we can completely decouple material well-being from CO2 emissions, for the first time in history.<p>This single assumption make its whole arguments vanish. It's the only argument that is not scientific, yet so important in its theory.<p>----------<p>And never ever he is talking about the environmental debt that allowed this productivity progress, that don't show up in the graphics he use. It only talks about short terms, not long term. Only about science, not about economy. Economy that is really linked to productivity and consumption, and debt. It avoid to talk about tipping point where things fall apart. It avoid the role of oil and gas in the productivity.<p>Author should read the story of the [hen that laid the golden eggs](<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hen_That_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hen_That_Laid_the_Golden_E...</a>): the production methods are killing the chicken, soon we'll not have golden eggs anymore.