The solution does not lie in redistributing labour or in patching up an unsustainable system; the real problem is overpopulation. As we search for ways to sustain more mouths, resources and demands, nature will inevitably impose its own balance. There is no ‘progress’ or ‘universal welfare’ that can withstand an ecological collapse caused by our inability to accept that the planet has limits. If we keep trying to feed an infinite economic machine in a finite world, sooner or later, famines, epidemics, or disasters will do what we have not had the courage to do: reduce the human burden on the earth. It is uncomfortable, but it is inevitable.
Overpopulation isn't a problem. We make it a problem of course. However, it isn't a problem because at the rate we are going, the majority of people will not be able to sustain themselves and will just die in the streets.
Exactly, it will die in the street, nature will decimate the population...