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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: No Limits to Growth
Message-ID: <5824@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 16:13:05 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 26 16:13:05 1987
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In an article, lambert@boring.UUCP (Lambert Meertens) writes:
>In article <5818@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>> speed of light?  About 11,000 years.  Does anyone want to argue
>> that this is not an upper bound on human population?
>
>Yes, since you could slow down reproduction (which would happen near the
>speed of light anyway) and still expand.

Oops.  I meant to say "Does anyone want to argue that we can keep up a
one percent growth rate longer than 11,000 years?"

On misc.kids, this started as a discussion about why people wanted large
families.  It soon turned into an argument between those who advocate
population control now, and those who think that more efficient use of
farmland, and perhaps expansion into space, will allow us to maintain
the current population growth rate indefinitely. 
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