I do consider global average lifestyle; I know that basically it sux. We have Haitians chronically eating DIRT and others in other places not a whole lot better. Now, if these dirt-eating Haitians could find it within themselves to not have 9 kids each, perhaps their available resources would better match demand.
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If we increase the number of people, resource prices tend to increase and consumption on average drops.
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Should point out that
individual consumption
may drop but total consumption does not, at least until the resource in question really becomes unavailable.
Maybe I'll reverse myself re: "opulance" - fewer people leading to more opulance for the individual. Sounds like a wonderful thing right? And with a great enough reduction in population, the opulance probably will only go so far, not enough to offset the low pop thus reducing consumption. Quality, rather than quantity, of life- what a concept!