Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

According to Charlie Gibbs  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>:

On 2024-10-27, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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Short of building huge towers of nuclear illuminated hyrdoponics we can

My back-of-the-envelope calculation tells me that if we continue
to double our population every 40 years, ...

You might want to get some numbers for your envelope more recent than the 1950s.

Here's a good place to start:

https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/900

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