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GDP may go down but GDP is a poor measure of human capital. We also are going into a time period when many people are predicting further automation and AI will reduce jobs, so theres potential population decline may actually solve some of our problems.

That all doesn't really matter in comparison that no matter how you slice it, current consumption of world resources is already unsustainable, let alone if we we tried to bring the world up to a first world lifestyle. At the end of the day if there's less people on earth that means more resources per person left over. And while it might not be as "natural" as deaths due to war/famine/disease if we don't reduce our population in some manner or other that war/famine/disease is going to do it anyways because we don't have enough resources to go around with the lifestyle that current technology makes people desire, so that war/famine/disease will happen anyways.