Which developing countries are rural and sparse but use more land than, say, Germany, where humans use essentially every available piece of land? That hunter-g

Which developing countries are rural and sparse but use more land than, say, Germany, where humans use essentially every available piece of land? That hunter-gathering couldn't sustain the current population is not evidence that the planet would be worse off. Neither are birth rates. High population growth rates are a side effect of development, which is usually accompanied with both urbanization and ecological damage. It's a very common story. The dodo was killed off in the 1600s by urban, agricultural Europeans. You might want to revisit some of the data you used to come to your conclusion.