I don't think resource availability has anything to do with population growth in humans. We've tried to make nature our slave and fooled ourselves that it's worked while really we've just been shitting in our own kitchen/living room/(maybe faces? I want something else here...)

My understanding is that statistically the more rights and access to education that is afforded to people with ovaries the slower the population grows. places that have better access to resources tend to have 0 or negative net population growth if immigration is factored out because they tend to be the same places where women have more rights and are allowed to go to school. which also means poverty and population rates grow together.