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Was a fun, short show on radio 4 yesterday called hacking capitalism which used an example of how African farmers could massively improve production if they can mechanise the work but currently don't have access to credit, lack of capital, machines, support to do so but how a bunch of innovators (Chinese copy cats firms ignoring IP), open source software and crypto were all working to provide these new opportunities and bring large efficiencies and improvements in living standards to areas that current corporate interests have failed
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Yup, plantations are plantations, whether they be wheat, pine, bananas....
I suspect that 7.9 billion people cannot exist in perfect balance with nature. Or at least that it requires a genius, hitherto unseen setup like some really clever mass permaculture. But we simply need too many resources. And when we grow/produce/extract those resources I think we're often choosing "least terrible" rather than "most sustainable". It's damaging because of scale.
The global overpopulation feels a bit like trying to throw a 400 person rave in a village tea shop. You cannot expect it to hold up to the abuse.