Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World
by cdoxsey on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @05:31AM
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A lot of people don't know this but birth rates have fallen dramatically:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility
We will soon have the opposite problem in many countries - an aging population with no base of support.
Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World
by nabla9 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @05:30AM
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Human population is not growing exponentially anymore. Human population growth rate peaked 1962 at 2.1%, and it has been slowing down since.
Even remaining population growth is a big problem, but using he word 'exponentially' to describe growth that is slowing down and is most likely sublinear is not accurate.
Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World
by abainbridge on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @09:59AM
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Yes, sorry, you are right. I still think we might have a nicer planet if Fritz had invented a (humane) way to prevent the exponential population growth we had in the 20th century, instead of a way to support it.
He didn't solve it. He just delayed the problem for a while. Solving it requires stopping the exponential growth of the human population.