Comment by Aurornis
7 hours ago
Yet population growth is slowing while our access to resources is growing rapidly.
Human population growth is not exponential. That’s so obvious that it’s hard to take anything about this argument seriously.
Biology isn’t a good proxy for society-scale economic changes.
we had nearly 2 centuries of roughly exponential growth. ended in the 60s but not everyone got the memo
Is "roughly exponential growth" being used as a synonym for "growth"?
Exponential is used as a scare word. It's not just growth, it's exponential growth! Run and scream in fright! Because if you don't do what I say you must do, we are exponentially doomed. Dooooomed!
I've done enough computer science work to be afraid of exponential growth.
i can't speak for everyone, but in the above assertion am using 'roughly exponential' to mean that world population between say 1880 and 1960 followed a curve that is, roughly, exponential, in the technical sense. much of the discourse 50 years ago, e.g. the population bomb, was predicated on this observation.
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