10,000 years of fossil fuels and the human population

Two graphs to ponder. The first is the consumption of fossil fuels based on the estimated reserves in the context of a 10,000 year period centred on now (a graph known as Hubbert’s Pimple), and the second is the size of the world population in the context of the same time period:
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