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How is this anything other than a slippery slope fallacy? Can you provide some examples of where the development of a rural, gravel road led to unstoppable, can
by dereg 4y ago
How is this anything other than a slippery slope fallacy? Can you provide some examples of where the development of a rural, gravel road led to unstoppable, cancerous development?
- Victerius 4y agoIt's not a fallacy. We have plenty of evidence. Human development, when not constrained by war, natural disasters, disease, lack of local resources, or inhospitable climate, is exponential. Every human settlement ever started small. One road. One house. Then two houses. Three houses. One day, the land on which New York City sits today was rural, and then a road was made. The rest is history.
- dereg 4y agoHow do you reconcile this with the fact that most modern nations are facing population decline? All sigmoidal curves look exponential until it plateaus.
- kortilla 4y agoSurvivorship bias. Massive chunks of the Midwest and west in the US are littered with dying populations. All of this “exponential” growth you’re referring to is in a small subset of cities.