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   XPost: uk.legal, alt.politics.uk   
   From: hex@unseen.ac.am   
      
   On 10/05/2017 23:04, Fredxxx wrote:   
   > On 09/05/2017 22:07, Norman Wells wrote:   
   >> On 09/05/2017 20:01, Roger Blake wrote:   
   >>> On 2017-05-09, Norman Wells  wrote:   
   >>>> You can scoff as much as you like, but it will happen.  The only   
   >>>> question is when.   
   >>>   
   >>> Not any time in the foreseeable future. The people making these   
   >>> predictions tend to fudge data to present the worst-case scenario and   
   >>> fail to take into account technological progress.  I do scoff and laugh   
   >>> quite a bit at the environmentalists, and for good reason.   
   >>>   
   >>> With respect to Steven Hawking, in the long run the earth certainly is   
   >>> doomed and it is probably a good idea to get off this rock. However   
   >>> unless we are hit by an asteroid or manage to touch off a world-wide   
   >>> atomic war I don't see anything likely to make the earth uninhabitable   
   >>> within 100 years.   
   >>   
   >> Except that world population is increasing exponentially by about 50%   
   >> every 40 years.  And they're not making any more land or other resources.   
   >   
   > That is not the general consensus.   
   >   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth   
   >   
   > Growth is slowing so no longer exponential. Perhaps if we didn't support   
   > famine relief...............   
      
   No, it is still exponential.  The estimates that an exponential curve   
   will suddenly reverse direction are just wishful thinking.  They're a   
   triumph of hope over experience.   
      
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