The "growing population" statement is misleading, anyway, because it is temporary. The fertility rate is plummeting. About 2/3 of countries are already below replacement rate, many far below, and countries are already worried about the demographic shock from dranatically decreasing populations: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-plummeting-fertility...
The demographic collapse isn't currently as obvious only because it takes a long time for people to die :-).
The bigger worry is dramatically decreasing population sizes over the next few centuries.