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From: szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Human pop. stats.
Message-ID: <21564@crg5.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 91 19:24:22 GMT
References: <1991Apr6.205855.3131@desire.wright.edu> <21531@crg5.UUCP> <1991Apr15.044039.7333@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
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In article <1991Apr15.044039.7333@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:

>>[I write] beyond the ZPG point population growth will not "level 
>>out", it will become negative, reaching an equilibrium of -50%/generation.

>Who cares?  

Anybody who cares about their culture, or the cultures of others, that
would die out under negative population growth.  Anybody who cares about
the long term for our species in general.

Alas, most of us are still so caught up in the old "overpopulation" paradigm
that we can't see the other side of the coin.


-- 
Nick Szabo			szabo@sequent.com
"The biscuits and the syrup never come out even" -- Robert A. Heinlein
The above opinions are my own and not related to those of any
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