> The net world population is going up. Any non-zero growth rate will eventually saturate the planet.
There's a huge difference between "saturating" 10 years from now or 1000 years from now.
And population growth has slowed down to a crawl. It's enough to bring just a dozen, or less, countries out of poverty to achieve basically zero growth.
> We are already beyond capacity.
We are not.
> causing each person to boost their resource consumption.
Overconsumption is a problem, and should definitely be solved.
1. The net world population is going up. Any non-zero growth rate will eventually saturate the planet.
2. We are already beyond capacity. Even if we kept the current population level for 100 years, we would still run out of resources.
3. The countries that slow down their growth tend to get more economically developed, causing each person to boost their resource consumption.
In 4-2-1 families (Chinese one child policy), the one remaining person consumes far more resources than the 6 ancestors combined.