After observing the impact the biosphere has experienced with developed countries and developing countries industrializing, do you believe it will support the same for another 4 billion people? My evidence that it will not is enumerated below.

I would agree that policies that help African women become as empowered and wealthy as fast as possible (which reduces the total number of children had [1]) would be the key to success, if done in a manner that does not increase per capita GHG emissions, meat consumption, and all the other negative impacts of per capita wealth growth. If Africa gets wealthy and pumps out CO2 and methane from autos, factory farming, fossil electrical generation, and clear cutting for ag production, that is not a net positive.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-... (Our World In Data: What explains the change in the number of children women have?)

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/topics/resource-library-h...

https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions

https://ourworldindata.org/fish-and-overfishing

https://ourworldindata.org/excess-fertilizer

https://ourworldindata.org/diet-affordability

https://ourworldindata.org/living-planet-index-decline

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/farmers-a...