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Now let's apply the same result to demographics: Suppose there was a small clan in the year zero and their culture and technology allowed their population to gr
by nroets 11y ago
Now let's apply the same result to demographics: Suppose there was a small clan in the year zero and their culture and technology allowed their population to grow at an average annual rate of 2%. Then the earth would be overpopulated long ago.
Suddenly many of the bad things we are trying so hard to prevent seems not so bad anymore: disease, war, hunger and restrictions on immigration.
- cup 11y agoExcept people die after x years and the life expectancy over the first hundred generations would be miserable.
- nroets 11y agoSay the initial clan consisted of 25 couples, aged 1, 2, 3, ... to 25 years old. And people die after 25 years. And each couple between 18 and 25 years have one baby per year. Then the population will quadruple in less than 25 years. That's more than 5% population growth. So, people dying of old age does not limit population growth rate to less than 2%.