Re: overpopulation - more

Dan Clemmensen (Dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Mon, 06 Jul 1998 08:17:36 -0400

Damien Broderick wrote:
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> Rather than simply raising questions, I guess I should add some more to the
> discussion:
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[SNIP the entire paper]
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> Comments welcome

I think the actual issue is whether extreme longevity will change the situation. consider te following two scenarios:

  1. each woman has four children at age twenty (average) and dies as age forty, men die at forty.
  2. each woman has a child every twenty years. Men and women are immortal.

I think the population curves are identical.

conclusion: we have an overpopulation problem to solve in either case.