Is this not a sign that humans in a region are hitting the carrying capacity of the local environment?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day
The point is arguable, IMO, and the details very much so.
It is customary to completely ignore population size as a factor, as long as lifestyles or resource use could be more eco-friendly (commute with bicycles, rebuild infrastructure to make that possible, re-zone cities, change diets, make industries and farming greener, etc..)
This is the case even though those large, society-wide transformations would take decades, and even while the population is actively being increased by immigration (most of the developed world has had below-replacement fertility for decades, so birthrates are not a factor).