[LINK] Exponential growth [was Microsoft is dead ... were it so!]

[Brendan Scott]

Antony Barry wrote:
> 
> On 13/04/2007, at 10:31 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> 
>> We're dead. Just like Erlich and Malthus said. Guess I'll give up and go
>> have a cappuccino.
> 
> We are not dead, we just haven't reached stability and the way we are
> going there will be a very uncomfortable overshoot before things stabilise.
> 
> Eventually the birth rate will equal the death rate. Our choice will be
> to set the rate which can be high or low. We will also have a choice
> with finite resources as to how "rich" we want to be. Low population,
> rich; high population poor.

Population dynamics do not necessarily result in a stable equilibrium.

Brendan