My new favorite conspiracy theory is that there’s only like 5 billion people on the planet not 8.
When you look at the various mal incentives to lie about population it makes a lot of sense.
Commenting on a 3 week old post, because I had a feeling you were right too, and just stumbled across this today.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a70202293/human-population-miscalculated-study/
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a70202293/human-population-miscalculated-study/