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Just premature
Malthus and the Club of Rome weren't wrong, they were just premature, and they focused on food and oil instead of water.
When our little experiment with the technological/scientific/industrial revolution started just a couple of hundred years ago, it had taken since the retreat of the glaciers for H. sapiens to accumulate a billion souls on the planet.
Our response to prosperity seems to be to seek the human carrying capacity of the earth. We may well prove the limit by exceeding it.