T_Bone wrote:
It's the difference between leaping out of a high flying airplane with a bag of rocks or with a parachute. Either way you're gonna get to the ground.
How is it different? The correction (death) rate is a constant. Unless you're trying to figure out a way to make people die faster, overpopulation will take the same actions and ammount of time to solve, regardless of the population, weather it's 1 or infinity, the cycle stops around 70 years.
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The diffenerce is in getting to 0 growth on our terms or on natures terms. Both jumpers always reach the ground but the one with the controlled descent has a better chance of survival.
There is a sustainable population level and then there is population that we can support on a short term basis. The further we overshoot the sustainable level the more precipitous will be the collapse.
That is, if we consume the resources at a non-sustainable rate now then the lack of resources is what will cause the deathrate to climb and population levels will fall to the level of the resource left which may be very small.
If we moderate the resource use now we will have more survivors when the crunch comes.
We can drive full bore at the wall or we can start braking now.
