Arkinslize
Why do authors on this site so often start with chapters that are pure exposition? It's fking boring. I don't care about your world or characters yet, so why should I care about all these details? Please just stop. Get me to care about your world, characters and story first, then come with exposition. Because right now, after only a single chapter, I already want to drop this novel. I'm going to give it a few more chapters, but this first chapter ain't it chief...
Little known fact: earth can comfortably support a human population in the Trillions, and still be covered in verdent wildlands even as an Ecumenopolis. The only thing really stopping the population from growing even more than that is waste heat build up and ejection. Look up Isaac Arthur on YouTube and watch his megastructures series, it goes into a lot of detail on what can be done with modern science.