Re: overpopulation - more

From: Dan Clemmensen (Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Date: Mon Jul 06 1998 - 06:17:36 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> Rather than simply raising questions, I guess I should add some more to the
> discussion:
>
[SNIP the entire paper]
>
> Comments welcome

I think the actual issue is whether extreme longevity will change the
situation. consider te following two scenarios:
 1) each woman has four children at age twenty (average) and dies
as age forty, men die at forty.
 2) each woman has a child every twenty years. Men and women are immortal.

I think the population curves are identical.

conclusion: we have an overpopulation problem to solve in either case.



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