"Paul" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:jojcss$67c$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Metspitzer wrote:
>
>>
>> I think it is a brilliant idea. A really simple solution to human
>> suffering is to have less humans. The population growth can't
>> continue. It will stop. The most humane way to do that is to lower
>> births.
>
> It will stop, no matter what you do. It's called a sigmoid curve.
>
> http://www.ibguides.com/images/biology/5.3.1.png
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
>
> "A typical application of the logistic equation is a common model of
> population growth, originally due to Pierre-François Verhulst in 1838,
> where the rate of reproduction is proportional to both the existing
> population and the amount of available resources, all else being equal."
>
> If you test that with single cell organisms, you're likely to get
> the requisite (sigmoid) shape.
>
> When human population is "resource limited", the shape of the
> curve is not likely to be smooth. Likely some big downward spikes.
> That's where intelligence fits in. And lethality multipliers.
>
> At the moment, I don't see intelligence playing much of a part.
>
"Beam me up, Scotty. There's no intelligent life down here."
Sooner or later, growth will stop because of lack of resources (as quoted above). The bad part is, if we (as a race)
wait that long, what will life be like afterwards? I keep thinking of scenes from "Soylent Green" or "Terminator 3."
In reply to GMAN, China really doesn't have a bad idea; they just have a terrible way of going about it.
As far as the "vaccines" go, would reversible sterility until age 21 (or older) really be all that bad an idea? Doesn't
anyone besides me get tired of seeing 15 year old girls wheeling their 2 year olds through the store? Where are the
resources going to come from to support this uneducated horde (since most drop out of school after childbirth) that will
be the next two generations? You can't eat tax dollars, even if there will be a working force left to tax.
I better stop here. I'm sure I'll get enough flame out of this to heat my house this coming winter (unless the
"terrorists" decide to provide us all with a nuclear winter).
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SC Tom