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What's So Terrible About Kids?
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: idontunderstand on 08 Jan 2013, 06:20 ---Having a kid = Polluting the world?
Sorry, I'm done with this discussion. I respect your view but we obviously won't see eye to eye.
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My point was simply that while one person doing something might not have a significant effect in the large scheme of things, it is never just one person doing it. The effects of millions of individuals making the same decision do aggregate. Pollution was just an example, it was not meant as a direct comparison. Although, one could certainly argue that adding additional humans is, in a round about way, polluting the world, that was not the point I was trying to make.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 08 Jan 2013, 08:37 ---Actually the world population isn't growing exponentially. Our growth has been steadily declining for decades now. This isn't to say that we aren't growing population, but the global birth rate trends has us topping out and then declining by 2080 somewhere around the 12 - 15 billion point.
The decline is actually likely to cause some problems of it's own, but it'll clearly be good long term.
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I'd like to see how that works... Yes, the rate is slowing, but it's still an exponential rate. Death also grows as the population does, but getting the total growth rate to hit 0 and then go negative just doesn't seem likely; at least, not as soon as it needs to happen.
Not without a pandemic or two thrown in...
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 08 Jan 2013, 09:05 ---Not without a pandemic or two thrown in...
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Considering the speed at which diseases adapt to current methods of eradication, as compared to the speed at which we develop pharmaceuticals to combat resistant organisms...I'd say that plague and pestilence is a distinct possibility.
All the more reason to vaccinate those kids y'all may or may not be havin'.
Sidhekin:
--- Quote from: John R. Snead, some 17 years ago, ---The basic facts are that the rate of decrease of the population growth
rate has been falling for decades, at an ever increasing rate.
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I honestly think he meant it.
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: Sidhekin on 08 Jan 2013, 09:54 ---
--- Quote from: John R. Snead, some 17 years ago, ---The basic facts are that the rate of decrease of the population growth
rate has been falling for decades, at an ever increasing rate.
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I honestly think he meant it.
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Graphed, that would be similar to y=(-√x)+⅓x
Wait...no, that would be the rate of growth over time. The actual population over time would look more like y=4/(3√x).
I think....wait, maybe it's just y=x2
I...don't know anymore. :psyduck:
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