Posted: Jun 09, 2019 4:31 am
Spearthrower wrote:laklak wrote:Trust in Malthus, He will provide.
If we don't effect change, change will affect us. It's strange how many people don't want Malthus' reach to include humans. It's that special sauce we reserve for ourselves.
That's actually a non-banal point to come out of tuco's wibble. Population growth predictions going past 2100 (11 billion people) see human catastrophe scenarios rapidly increasing in likelihood where by 2200, the human population of the planet has a greater chance of being 2 billion than it does of being 20 billion.
And then there's also Macdoc's doctored images of the way it would look if we piled everyone into the Grand Canyon for a group photo...
I love the way some people will extrapolate differential equations to non-physical situations. There, in a nutshell, is one clear difference between mathematics and physics, in case anyone wants to revive that one.
I don't know what kind of ethos lies behind such wishful thinking. I'm not a seller of logo t-shirts and coffee mugs on the internet.