Quote by: Keith Hamburger  No, delusional is making claims based on pure hearsay with no evidence, and because of those claims, calling someone else "delusional".
I posted evidence that the WORLD's growth rate has been moderating for several decades. The second derivative of the growth function, the rate of change of growth, has been negative for some time. The first derivative, the change in growth itself, is approaching zero. It is anticipated, based on historical trends, that the growth of the world's human population will be negative within a few decades.
This does not characterize "exponential" growth.
Now, you don't say where you live, but out here in the Wild and Wooley West, there is plenty of room. Sure, there are occaisional issues with water, but, using the proper methods (both high tech and low tech) that water could go a lot further than it does. Turns out, we actually have government regulations that prevent the maximally effective use of water. As far as land, and sunshine, and most anything else you would need, we're nowhere near running out.
If we were to allow the most efficient sources of energy, hemp and nuclear, we could easily provide for the power and water requirements, even for the dry West.
It turns out that greater levels of technology and freedom lead to lower, even negative, population growth rates. As people around the world are able to better provide for their own future, they rely less and less on future generations to do so. Big problem is that many want to reduce our use of technology and limit our freedom. Historically, that has been shown to result in extremely high population growths.
Quite the conundrum, huh?
The more you act to limit population growth, the more likely you are to have out of control population growth.
Keith |
Mar 15, 2007, 04:21 pm
