I hope they've sent the Vatican a copy of the memo.

the less that gets done.

Voluntary population reduction is a political third rail issue pretty much everywhere except China. The only way population reduction will happen globally is if it's taken out of our hands by economic and food supply failures.

"The only way population reduction will happen globally is if it's taken out of our hands by economic and food supply failures."

This is exactly what will bring down the population. I wonder if it will happen just slowly enough that humanity (especially the comfy tv-watchers) will not consider it a disaster. That is how every other horrifying thing seems to happen.
The boiling frog comes to mind Before long it'll be 9 billion frogs boiling at once.

I suspect the "bend in the road" is actually a lot closer than people think. The destabilization of virtually every system we depend on to keep the machine running - from climate and energy supplies to economic and political order - is already well underway. I figure Dmitry Orlov has an inside track on how it will unfold, and we'll see a Russian-style collapse in both population and consumption in reasonably short order.

I'm betting the number of humans will max out at around 8 billion in about 2030, then start to slide fairly alarmingly. The voluntary decisions about population reduction will be taken by individuals, not governments - by couples simply deciding that the future has become too uncertain to risk bringing children into it.

So many people just don't know what a quality world it could be.