Extremely easy to beat that.
You can see that global population used to stay at around half a billion until around 1700. The growth is a recent thing.
So let me propose a more controversial theory - lead made people have a lot of children.
You can't beat this.
Humans had many offspring for millennia, humanity has had fewer offspring since lead has been banned.
I'm not the one proposing the theory, but that's a correlation.
Extremely easy to beat that.
You can see that global population used to stay at around half a billion until around 1700. The growth is a recent thing.
So let me propose a more controversial theory - lead made people have a lot of children.
You can't beat this.