And the irony is that in those 200,000 years there was no mean to control it

So?

That’s how exponential growth works?

Well yes. The infant mortality rate dropped drastically as the average life expectancy rose- meaning more people survived to reproduce, and more of their offspring survived as well. As we moved away from remote tribes or groups having to be wholly self sufficient that also led to increases in population density making it easier for viable mating pairs to find each other and mate. The reduction in time and effort expended in survival also meant people had more time and resources to dedicate to mating and parenthood. Technology works similarly- technological progress for the first several thousand years of human existence was relatively slow, with “major breakthroughs” and revolutionary technologies having large gaps in time but small gaps in progress, where as from the industrial revolution on technology improved at exponential rates into the digital revolution. It’s theorized that once quantum computing takes off/ technological progress would also develop even more rapidly....

shoutout to the people who don't think critically and didn't realize this

and if all goes according to plan, it should drop back to 1 billion in another 200