Pakistan is realising.

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference Cop27, "Set against a difficult geopolitical backdrop, COP27 resulted in countries delivering a package of decisions that reaffirmed their commitment to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels." United Nations. "Creating a specific fund for loss and damage marked an important point of progress, with the issue added to the official agenda and adopted for the first time at COP27." Nobody seems prepared to discuss overpopulation. "Roughly 83 million people are added to the world's population each year, according to the UN, with modern advances in medicine and nutrition to thank for their survival into adulthood and old age." WEF. "But it is very alarming at the rate we're going," said 92 year old naturalist Sir David Attenborough. "Population growth plays a role in environmental damage and climate change. But addressing climate change through either reducing or reversing growth in population raises difficult moral questions that most people would prefer to avoid having to answer," wrote Prof Michael P Cameron. Apparently not the Pakistani newspaper Dawn. "There are simply too many of us: the pace at which Pakistan's population is growing is fast outstripping our ability to provide for the millions that call this country home." wrote its Editorial. "Pakistan's alarming population growth rate at 2.4pc per annum, which translates to between 4m and 5m children being added to the total each year, is no less than an existential threat." "Iran and Bangladesh are just about the finest examples of countries that used sensible and rational methods to bring down their fertility rates from more than five (50 years ago) to 2.1 and 2.0 respectively. Pakistan stands crawling at an unenviable rate of 3.6," it wrote in 2020. The world reached a landmark population of 8 billion on 15 November 2022. UN. "Countries with the highest fertility levels tend to be those with the lowest income per capita." UN. "When the next billion is added, over 90 percent of it is expected to come from those same countries," wrote Mohamed Zeeshan. "That's great if governments in Asia, Africa and Latin America begin to create millions of jobs each year. But the likelier reality is that poorer countries will only have more mouths to feed, with already scarce and fast-depleting resources." "Europe saw a 14% drop in its birth rate in January 2021 compared to previous years - a decline probably triggered by the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, research suggests." BBC. In contrast, "India is likely to surpass China as the most populous country in 2023," but experts think that "can turn out to be an opportunity for India to become resource creator for the world". ET. Union Minister Piyush Goyal boasted that the government provides food assistance to 800 million people in India. ET. Does the world want this resource from India? Probably not. It now takes up to almost 3 years for Indians to get an interview for a tourist visa to the US. ET. Growing demand for food and resources will make our climate worse. Which, in turn, could reduce food production. Pakistan is at least talking about its population. Some Indians still believe in 'demographic dividend'. Until it's too late.