On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Jason White wrote:
Carl Turney <carl@boms.com.au> wrote:
But the vast majority of people still believe that population growth isn't a bad thing, and extremely few politicians and policy-makers who'll dare to educate them.
It's predicted to peak at approximately 8 billion. However, this also coincides with an era of global warming in addition to resource constraints and, of course, risks that are hard to estimate, for example the next influenza epidemic.
I think it was first year mathematics that they introduced the preditor/prey coupled differential equations otherwise known as the Logistic Equation and variations thereof. We are the predator rather than the prey, but ultimately I suspect the mathematics is the same - resource constraints and famine-induced disease will become the prey. The sudden crashes aren't pretty. Decimation is an understatement. -- Tim Connors