[ExI] Wondering if we'd be Better Off with Fewer People

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 22:08:23 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 2:18 AM, hkhenson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
> You can't avoid it.  Exponential growth, even linear growth, will fill any
> finite carrying capacity.

Obviously, as would do equally well, with time, a linear growth. Only,
whatever the demographic pressure of a given population, it never
grows forever within the limits of its existing environment. It seeks
new environmental niches into which to evolve, and is subject to
external limiting factors. This applies both to one-day life span
species and one-century life-span species, so that I do not see that
an increase in human longevity would change much to it, but for the
fact that some components of our species may deliberately opt for
their progressive extinction in favour of others.

Stefano Vaj



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