Per the law of conservation of mass, there is no new "matter" being created. Ergo, when there were 610,000,000 people alive in 1700, there was "energy" everywhere. The world wasn't just mysterious and unexplored, it literally had more free mass in various forms.
Fast forward and 1,428,627,663 indians and 1,425,671,352 gooks roam the earth, and people wonder why everything lacks life.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/eb683238-733f-47c3-93a5-1371e9cd0b0a