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Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World by nabla9 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @05:30AM (#16366106)
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.

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Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World by abainbridge on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @09:59AM (#16367566)
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.
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