[quote=davelj]Exactly where did I assert that “economics pushes growth to support increasing populations”? I don’t even know what that sentence means. You just made that up. This is a recurring issue with you[/quote]

[quote=davelj]And the solution to this “problem” (if you accept that there is a problem, that is) is so simple: Stop reproducing.[/quote]

Obviously, we understood the “problem” to be different. The problem according to the video I posted(which led to response your about reproducing) was economists and politicians pushing for endless economic “growth” without an regard to its impossibility.

Since your solution to economists and politicians calling for the impossibility of endless economic growth(“problem”) was to stop reproducing indicated to me that you were blaming population growth for economists and politicians calling for the impossible. Meaning if population growth stopped then politicians and economists would stop calling for endless economic growth. To which I disagreed. Which led to this discussion.

So what was our assertion here? The video was about economic, not population growth.