No, because we know that it's not going to be the same. The best we can do is look at past trends and make educated guesses
the only past trends that are relevant and come to mind are these two:
1. the human race has and will continue to expand.
2. technological advances are of an unpredictable size and nature.
the human race will grow at the same or at a larger rate because as the population grows, so do the number of people who could produce offspring with one another. if you want to look at past trends, here's a graph supporting an exponential growth that has remained true for the past 4,000 years of human history.
Based on what? Trends have shown that middle classed couples and above tend to have less children. Bring the standard of education up, and population growth slows.
it might slow down how fast the population could have been but without a global power to enforce restrictions to childbirth (and entering the realm of 1984) such a thing is literally impossible. i used to think it would be common sense that two people shouldn't have more than 2 kids. if people left the same amount of space they took up the population would stop growing and remain static. the fact is that most people don't think that way, and would rather have 3+ children. it's unrealistic to expect everyone would share your ideologies. speaking from personal experience, most people would prefer to regard the worlds problems the same way you regarded the numbers on that graph: out of sight, out of mind.
Again, based n what? Some alarmist/pessimist view of the world and the human condition? Please.
the statistics supporting his claims are sound. human growth growing exponentially. the number of resources declining are not things that you can just ignore and say "it'll all sort out when we develop the new technology".
if i let go of a rock and predict that it will hit the ground, i am not a pessimist/alarmist. i am someone who understands that gravity is an ever-present universal law that will only be avoided if someone invents a device that can make the rock float, builds it, and uses it on said rock before impact (providing they don't miss).
Have you ever noticed that you have a really negative view of humanity? Sure, all those things would technically work, but what would that achieve? Say all the evil businessmen send all the plebs to war. Then we're left with an useless upper class who are completely stagnant because they don't have anyone to order around. Say we all kill ourselves. Then what? The universe continues on as normal whatever happens. We may as well be a part of it, and try to do what we can for it.
but our existence
is in the long run meaningless. there really is no better or worse, those are both concepts developed by the human condition. with us or without us the universe will continue doing what it does none the wiser. furthermore if we do not engage in population control, resources will decline and people will die anyway. even if you denounce his cynical claims we're still left with people killing each other for food. before you call me grim, realize that it's inevitable until we discover mass effect and join the universes intelligent beings in the citadel where we can start worrying about the threat of the reapers.
