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Re:Forget Shorter Showers (2009) by coldtea on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @10:28AM (#8527316)
>There are many examples of species that stopped growing exponentially, or lost the ability to do so. They're all extinct.

Those are animal species. We have other talents, and other issues to solve.

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Re:Forget Shorter Showers (2009) by waps on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @12:39PM (#8528153)
The idea that the human population is somehow exempt from the natural laws on population sizes is wholly unsupported by history. The human population follows a population curve near-perfectly, better than many animal species.
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