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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (68595)

9/8/2015 7:08:55 AM

From: Solon

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"growth rates are slowing worldwide"

One way to slow the growth rate is to increase the death rate through war, famine, or disease. A preferred way is to combine education...and the judicious use of contraceptive measures.

Nevertheless, the populations keep doubling over periods of time, and given the reality of finite resources, this malady will either be resolved by Nature or by human policy and intervention.

So far this year, births have exceeded deaths by 58 MILLION people.

worldometers.info

Summary Table

	1 - 1804 (1803 years): 0.2 to 1 bil.					1804 - 2011 (207 years): from 1 billion to 7 billion
Year	1	1000	1500	1650	1750	1804	1850	1900	1927	1950	1960	1974	1980	1987	1999	2011	2020	2024	2030	2038	2050	2056	2100
Pop, (billions)	0.2	0.275	0.45	0.5	0.7	1	1.2	1.6	2	2.55	3	4	4.5	5	6	7	7.7	8	8.4	9	9.5	10	11.2

Note that in 18 centuries we grew by less than a billion! But in the last 200 years we have grown by SIX BILLION! The Snowball effect following the simple and inexorable laws of mathematics...