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Good news, the share of the world's land used for agriculture has been declining for 24 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-land-area-used-f...

Now that your objection (increased land use) has been disproven, I am sure you will come to change your outmoded, even Ehrlichian, views on human population size.

I don't know how to reconcile that with this other chart which shows agricultural land went from 4.81 billion ha in 2000 to 4.83 billion ha in 2023.

Per capita it's still a decline. Personally I would attribute it to increasing yields in the developing world which are due to modern practices, pesticides, and fertilizers. But it doesn't show a decline like in the chart you posted.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-agricultural-area-o...