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Have you ever heard of Malthusian economics?
It's the field of study that declares that humans will go extinct in anguish and agony, in starvation, because population and food demand goes up quadratically, while food supply goes up linearly. Extinction guaranteed in less than two generations unless we make radical changes. Pretty bleak, innit?
...Except Malthus wrote it in 1798.
Turns out, humans are REALLY good at NOT being locusts. We have brains and brawn, creativity and tenacity. We have made there be MORE food, MORE wildlife, MORE everything, really, than ever before. And whenever Malthus' ghost starts "boo"ing from the shadows at our growth, we invent new methods, new routes.
If you must compare humans to a disaster, they're more akin to a wildfire than a locust swarm. They consume quite a bit, but in their wake is fresher, cleaner, more fertile ground, that will produce and handle more than it could before. An initial destruction followed by greater reconstructions.