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Originally Posted by Arragonis
The rate is as important as the totals.
If the rate continues to fall eventually it will level off, or maybe even decline.
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No, the totals are what causes more "development" and congestion and stress on resources. The totals are what clogs the roads. The totals are what causes sprawl. The totals cause farmland to get built over. The totals cause housing "developments" ever further away from work centers (ridiculous commutes) and hollowed out forests. The totals create more demands such that more pipelines, rail lines, trucking, power plants, transmission lines, etc. are demanded.
The totals are what caused U.S. motor fuel consumption to
more than double since I was a kid.
Look at your chart. 40 years from now, do you see anywhere where the line is less than zero? I don't. What does that mean? Population GROWTH.
Did you look at the link in #61? They attempt to project out past 50 years from now. There is NO projected population decline.
I put "development" in quotes because I am quite sure that paving over a piece of land so breeders can tear around all over it does not represent an improvement from what it was. Ask any creature besides rats
and breeders and they'll probably agree.
Let's say pop was tripling, then the rate reduces to doubling. Yay, but the pop is STILL DOUBLING. Yup. It's still going UP, and rapidly.
While it is wonderful that the rate is smaller than it was, it isn't small enough, soon enough, to keep the total from being AN EXPLOSION.
The "Greatest Generation"- pffft- evidently they were the greatest at *******.
And the gummint forces me to subsidize reproducing and "development" activities.
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If the rate continues to fall eventually it will level off, or maybe even decline.
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That's a pretty big
"if". As soon as the economy shows a hint of recovery the breeders are going to unleash all sorts of pent-up demand for spawning. When do you think this levelling off or possible reversal might be, and what will the TOTAL be by that time?