No it does not boil down to population. That is a false believe that people have been pushing since the 60s and has been proven wrong over and over again. Its

No it does not boil down to population. That is a false believe that people have been pushing since the 60s and has been proven wrong over and over again. Its equally false that deforestation has to do with food wastage. And the 'solution' is not 'incremental improvements in lifestyle". In the west forest and the wild are actually coming back, even while we have food waste and "bad" lifestyle. Evidence shows that with 'modern' methods actually uses less land and gives you higher yields. Europe today is way less farmed far less then in the middle ages, forest are growing in Germany, Britain. Wild animals wolfs, bears and so on are coming back to Europe. The problem is poverty, low productivity, bad institutions and misaligned intensives for central governments compared to the people living close to the woods. And the solution is for the government and society there to change these things, not westerns eating more leftovers rather then throwing it away.