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It would be exponential if the net growth rate was 0.1%. If your savings account produces 0.1% interest that is still exponential growth. According to the rule
by bliteben 5y ago
It would be exponential if the net growth rate was 0.1%. If your savings account produces 0.1% interest that is still exponential growth. According to the rule of 70 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72) it would double in 700 years. That is exponential!
- ch4s3 5y agoThe growth rate is trending down and will probably go negative, it's unlikely to ever double again over any time horizon we can reasonably project.
- bliteben 5y agoI think this would be a good thing, but if it were reality, I think many countries would encourage births before we got even close to net 0. This part we cannot really know. Singapore is just one example that has been discouraging population increase then switching to encouraging population increase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_planning_in_Singapore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_planning_in_Singapo... Yet there is still a net increase during all this time. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SGP/singapore/population https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SGP/singapore/populati... I think asking the world to agree on something this potentially controversial, when you and I can't even agree on the nature of the increase, is asking too much.