Populations may drop, but why would you want quality of life to remain constant?
replyYou'd rather lower quality of land life to enable growth?
replyOr were you not responding to the argument that avoiding pollution is typical degrowth talk?
No. I'm saying that if the population is set to fall, we can crank resource spend per person all the way up, and enable growth that way. With a little side benefit of QoL improvements.
replyWhich requires a massive jump in labor productivity, mind. But if the optimistic takes on AI are right, such a thing is not impossible.