[AndrewGaspar]

World population in 1700 was 600 million, which is a single order of magnitude.

[ehmish]

Yeah probably should have double-checked that, thanks.

You prompted me to double-check my other claim (that land under cultivation didn't increase) and that was wrong too!

According to this it's gone up by about 5x https://ourworldindata.org/world-lost-one-third-forests

[Kydlaw]

Thank you for checking, I was dubious too about that claim.