The population curve helps ensure that the fixed amount of planet available is needing to be divvied among a continually, exponentially increasing quantity of humans.
Or, from another angle, the uninhibited spread of the human race does come with significant ecological drawbacks, at large scale. Those costs are realised, in the value of land over time - while the population curve sustains.
Or, from another angle, the uninhibited spread of the human race does come with significant ecological drawbacks, at large scale. Those costs are realised, in the value of land over time - while the population curve sustains.