This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.
If they're functional, and we get serious about space or birth control, then no it's not a problem. But that is another path we can take to really juice the dystopia.
It will take a very long time indeed before we can reach another habitable planet enough to alleviate an exponentially growing population, and forced birth control will be unpopular, not to mention probably employed as eugenics by those in power against those who aren't.
... and reduce emissions by wasting the rest. But due to negative selection leading into that upper class they won't be able to manage the planet further despite thinking that they can and will die of hunger eventually.