Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc...
by bliteben on Monday March 28, 2022 @03:55PM
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It would be exponential if the net growth rate was 0.1%. If your savings account produces 0.1% interest that is still exponential growth. According to the rule of 70 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_72) it would double in 700 years. That is exponential!
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Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc...
by ch4s3 on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:39PM
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The growth rate is trending down and will probably go negative, it's unlikely to ever double again over any time horizon we can reasonably project.
Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc...
by bliteben on Monday March 28, 2022 @06:18PM
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I think this would be a good thing, but if it were reality, I think many countries would encourage births before we got even close to net 0. This part we cannot really know.
Singapore is just one example that has been discouraging population increase then switching to encouraging population increase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_planning_in_Singapo... Yet there is still a net increase during all this time. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/SGP/singapore/populati...
I think asking the world to agree on something this potentially controversial, when you and I can't even agree on the nature of the increase, is asking too much.