jbond23

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   by jbond23 8y ago

   http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/bangladesh-pop... It looks like at least part of Bangla Desh's small reduction in absolute growth in population in recent years is due to emigration. Numbers leaving a
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   by jbond23 8y ago

   For the last 5 decades or so we've been stuck on linear growth. ~ +80m/yr, 12-14 years per +1b. That looks like it might be the middle straight line part of a sigmoid curve that started exponential and transitioned to linear. Ther
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   by jbond23 8y ago

   The future doesn't stop at 2100. There are people being born now who will see it. We are starting to badly need some narratives for the 22nd Century and beyond. As for Pinker; the techno-optimists don't seem to get that the Limits