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It doesn't matter. Even the degrowth due to declining population is exponential in nature. That was the point, population grows exponentially or decreases expon
by anon291 1y ago
It doesn't matter. Even the degrowth due to declining population is exponential in nature. That was the point, population grows exponentially or decreases exponentially. There is no such thing as linear population growth or decline.
- eru 1y agoGood luck fitting an exponential to the table of population over time in eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco Of course, you can do it piecewise, but you can also fit a piecewise linear curve (or even a step function) to any graph. Or fit an exponential to the graph in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population Just eyeballing the global data from 1950 to 2020 it looks like linear growth would be a much better fit than exponential. You might also want to look at logistic growth, see eg https://sites.math.duke.edu/education/ccp/materials/diffeq/logistic/logi1.html https://sites.math.duke.edu/education/ccp/materials/diffeq/l...