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[KrazyHorse]

Ok, then you do know what would be the ideal fertility rate.

No. You fail. I know how to recognize an upper bound. That does NOT mean I know how to determine the quantity itself.

******.

[KrazyHorse]

Great. You said it was good that nations were reducing their fertility rate to a more 'reasonable' level. Clearly you do have certain signposts out there.

As for myself, I don't buy the myth of overpopulation.

I don't buy the myth of current global overpopulation. But there ARE recent examples of LOCAL overpopulation.

[KrazyHorse]

GDP per capita of Africa

1700
400

1820
418

1870
444

1913
585

1950
852

1972
1365

GDP per capita of Western Europe in 1820:

1232

GDP per capita has increased roughly 50 percent from 1950 to 1972.

at cherrypicking data (from some source you didn't bother to name, I might add)

http://www.grida.no/publications/other/geo3/?src=/geo/geo3/english/093.htm

Over the next 25 years, growth in GDP per capita averaged ~ -1% per annum for subsaharan Africa.

Growth in Africa is ANYTHING but "slow and steady". It has been, over the last half century, "chaotic and almost non-existent".

[MrFun]

Geez ****ing christ. Let's get back on topic.

[Ben Kenobi]

at cherrypicking data (from some source you didn't bother to name, I might add)

From the source I already posted in the thread. If you had read the source, you'd have known that.

Read up next time before you accuse me of cherrypicking.

Over the next 25 years, growth in GDP per capita averaged ~ -1% per annum for subsaharan Africa.

You specifically stated the second half of the century, and for Africa as a whole not 'subsaharan Africa'.

Obviously, you were wrong. There has been slow and steady increases in GDP in Africa as a whole since 1950.

[Ben Kenobi]

I know how to recognize an upper bound. That does NOT mean I know how to determine the quantity itself.

Fine. What's the upper bound then?

[Velociryx]

This might be the most fascinating exchange in the history of the OT.

Ben...there are no words.

-=Vel=-

[Drake Tungsten]

You post ridiculous rants based on false premises, and when called on these falsehoods you refuse to acknowledge them.

To be fair, Ben is hardly the only poster on Poly to do this. See the previous poster as an example.

[MrFun]

Where did KH say that BK is the only one to constantly lie and present falsehoods as facts??

[Drake Tungsten]

Where did I say that KH said that BK is the only one to constantly lie and present falsehoods as facts??

[MrFun]

You post ridiculous rants based on false premises, and when called on these falsehoods you refuse to acknowledge them.

To be fair, Ben is hardly the only poster on Poly to do this. See the previous poster as an example.

I guess there was another reason you had to point out to KH that BK is not the only one who engages in such behavior.

[Drake Tungsten]

Do you not understand what "to be fair" means?

[MrFun]

yeah - never mind, then

[Velociryx]

How lovely of Ben's first cousin to drop by. And talking about himself again I see.

Marvellous.

-=Vel=-

[chequita guevara]

Geez ****ing christ. Let's get back on topic.

Pointing out what an idiot Ben is is the topic.