Zero population and consumption growth would only stabilize current unsustainability, not fix it.

Evidence

We hear much talk about environmental sustainability, but few explanations of what it means and the changes required to realize it. The mounting toll on the environment indicates that the current population size and rate of consumption already have exceeded the earth’s carrying capacity. Even adoption of zero growth in population and per capita consumption would, at best, only stabilize the present level of unsustainability. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2917

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely sobering reframing: the standard fix of ‘just stop growing’ only freezes an already-unsustainable state. To restore carrying capacity, consumption must actively contract — a demand almost no sustainability discourse will state plainly.
• SEED: Article angle: ‘Sustainability literally means holding position — and that is not enough.’ The math of degrowth as the only actual remedy.