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RE: The Sky Is Not Falling: Overpopulation - Coming Disaster or Myth? (Featuring @jaredcwillis as Author)
Great stuff. On your link to fossil fuels, taking a meta view I understand a significant factor on the population explosion over the last 100 years is the increase in total energy that hydrocarbon exploitation has put into the human system. Like agar on a petri dish it has supercharged global agriculture, transport, distribution, communication. Allowing us to sustain ourselves at an artificially high rate. A correction is long overdue, and climate change is the kicker.
I was going to point this out. The human population is fairly flat to linear until a bump at coal discovery and start of the industrial revolution. When oil and its uses is discovered the population goes positively vertical. When oil goes down or away it's reasonable to expect that population to come down proportionally, albeit technological advices mean not all the way down