It is absurd to even consider such an increase, yet we stumble blindly into the future of gross over population without any consideration of population control. There is no benefit to having a population of 7.8 billion over the 4 billion we had in the 1960s.

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Publications are chock full of articles speculation about how we will feed 12 billion, but nothing about why we should avoid that plight at all costs.

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https://medium.com/politically-speaking/can-we-downsize-to-save-our-environment-f0e96afa895e

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Great article. All are problems are multiplies by over population.