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Originally Posted by Yakk
That sounds about right. The second one has unproven assertions however.
There are already things other than misery that seem to be able to reduce population growth, or even halt/shrink it in some cases. Look at the birth rates of modern "western" societies. Many of them have fallen below replacement levels.
That might not sustain itself.
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Yakk, I need to research, but I don't think that is correct - The population growth in the U.S. has backed off the high levels of the middle of the 1900's, but we are still growing at a significant rate. Modern sociologist are adament that world population is THE challenge of our generation, coming up with ways to feed and care for the rocketing numbers of people in developing nations, and developing an infrastructure that will handle the growth within our own country. Population grows exponentially with each generation, and we are treating it as if it grows at a fixed rate. The misery described in the theorems is already becoming pretty evident in many parts of the world such as India, Africa, China where disease and hunger have become the norm for the majority of people.
Here are some backing statistics and info:
http://www.prb.org/Content/Navigatio...ion_Growth.htm