Why has our population grown so much faster than ever before?

it's trump's fault, obviously

>>8470832
>types meme
>solves captcha
>gets not 1 kek
>sits comfortably, breathing steadily, reading the replies it'll get

>>8470823
> What is exponential growth?

>>8470833
(You)

>>8470823
Because of the underlying mechanisms of population growth. Nigga.

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>>8470846
I think they asked why. The answer is the second agricultural revolution fed by fossil fuels. We eat oil now - just indirectly. This will self correct soon enough though. Carbon taxation to save the climate compounded by depleting fossil fuels will make cheap food hard to come by later in the 21st century then comes a lot of death.

>>8470854
Are more babies being born?

>>8470823
Pick up your calculator.
Punch in 1. Add 2. Then add 3. Then add 4. Keep following this trend until you get to 7 billion.

You'll notice the latter half of the process will go fast than the first half.

>>8470823
>lesser mortality rate
>longer life spans

Gee, I wonder why!

>>8470823
more people being reincarnated?

>>8470854
What happens in 2050?

>>8470857
I never ejaculated into her. I always pull out and go with the rhythm method. I don't know what other people do but yes, it seems like there are a lot of people all of a sudden, babies too.

>>8470867
I dunno, maybe ask the UN because they seem to know what the weather will be in 2100 however that projection data was culled from official UN sources.

>>8470867
virtual reality enters golden age

>>8470872
>virtual reality
>golden age
>already a zelda game with a 600 mile map

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>>8470869
>I always pull out and go with the rhythm method.

Good luck with that, Christfag.

>>8470823
Birth rate has increased marginally, death rate has plummeted.

>>8470875
say it with more childlike words, no "marginally" or "plummeted" like a scientist.

I even googled the first word and found nothing. if a kid (which I) can't get it, don't use it.

e.g. plummeted could've been "lowered a lot" or "gone down"

>>8470881
unga die less
unga also have more unglings

>>8470887
you could use some of that humility, my good anon.

>>8470874
It's not me that's Christian, its her. I'm atheist. If there is an accidental child we agreed to compromise and make it Pagan because abortion is apparently off the table. We both really liked The Wickerman, the original not the horrible American remake.

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>>8470892

Dude, hit dat until it gets boring and gtfo of that relationship. Find someone not so "unique". You're well on your way to a personal/financial/legal disaster.

Back on topic, it's stupid shit like religious edicts that's blocking most of humanity from doing the responsible thing and engaging in contraception and sex ed and one child per family goals (like the Chinks had) to rescue us from a looming disaster.

>>8470823
because its literally hard to not be able to reproduce now.
we have life very easy.
Lefties are still okay with ending their genetic lines though, i guess its for the best.

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>>8470823
All societies originally started with a high birth rate and a high death rate. In such circumstances it's advantageous to have lots of children because when (if) you grow old you need children to support you, and you need plenty of them because at least one or two of them will die.

Eventually, with the progress of medicine and agricultural technology and with the process of industrialisation the death rate starts to fall but people still have lots of children because few realise they don't need to any more, the cultural consciousness still believes you need a lot of children to secure your old age. There may also be religious bans on contraception and the like. It is at this point that the population tends to balloon as the birth rate and death rate diverge significantly.

Once prosperity sets in and cultural norms start to catch up, it is realised that fewer children are needed and, with social security, welfare and pensions (plus savings from a lifetime of labour that pays better than the level of mere survival) it is possible to live in old age without having had children so some choose not to. Another substantial contribution to the fall in fertility rate comes from greater female education and inclusion in the workforce, because it means that women are on average less content to simply be mothers and want to do things with their own lives.

However, the problem is that there is usually a last 'largest' generation, the ones born when death rates were low but birth rates were high before fertility rates dramatically declined - in the west, Baby Boomers. The society will face economic difficulties once this demographic reaches retirement age, as there may be too few of working age to support their pensions and to look after them. Luckily, most societies in this stage today can simply siphon people of working age from nearby societies further back in the development of their population pyramid, when their 'large generation' is of working age. However-

>>8470823
Have you seen Idiocracy?

>>8470858
That's quadratic growth, exponential growth is a lot faster

>>8471833
-unfortunately, most people within a society are simply not equipped to understand the vast socioeconomic contexts within which their life plays out which, combined with innate human tribalism, can cause friction between the society's resident population and the economic migrants. The fact that these issues have not been properly dealt with, and the tensions properly resolved, has made itself clearly manifest in the political events of the past year.

The irony is that while it is the 'last, large' generation that is inadvertently responsible, through no specific fault and simply by its existence, for the economic difficulties to which economic migration is the solution, it is usually this same generation that is most resistant to that solution. Futhermore, if anyone doubts that it is a solution or that economic migrants cause damage to a nation's economy, there are numerous papers concluding otherwise - for a few examples:
>http://www.nber.org/papers/w21123
>http://www.nber.org/papers/w19315
>http://wol.iza.org/articles/do-immigrant-workers-depress-the-wages-of-native-workers
More can be found with google. Further furthermore, because past experience has resolved me to expect dissenters, consider the difference between economic migrants arriving in a country and young citizens within that country reaching the working age. Functionally, there is exactly the same increase in the number of workers - and indeed, the effects could easily be modelled as migration from a 'country of the young'. However, typically it is not perceived that the young reaching working age is an economic drain, nor are there rallies complaining that 'the young are stealing our jobs'. If it were indeed the case that increasing the number of workers in the job pool should lead to fewer jobs all around, then any population growth at all should lead to a spiral of economic devastation. There may be a notion that the young becoming economically active is somehow more 'natural' -

>>8471890
- than the arrival of economic migrants, but this reasoning is fallacious as there is no special limit on the rate of either, nor any kind of feedback mechanism that would reasonably be able to control the rate of young reaching the workforce versus migrants doing so.

In terms of addressing the problem of 'overpopulation' of the world today, more realistically 'over-usage of resources', two approaches can and must be taken simultaneously. Firstly, the reduction of population growth by improving conditions of life in less economically developed countries. Decoupling security in later life from having many children, and quickly inducing cultural perception of this, along with increasing female education and inclusion in the workforce, is a must and indeed is progressing in all countries not currently suffering from war or large-scale internal turmoil. The rate of progress must be increased however, and this can only be done by increased investment in lesser developed countries and in nonprofit organisations providing resources and education (and contraception) to these countries. Gaining support for this in more economically developed countries is unfortunately difficult, for the obvious reason that the more developed country sees no economic gain in the short nor mid term, and even in the long term benefits only in that everyone does by avoiding 'overpopulation'. Other reasons include objection by the populace due to the intuitive but incorrect reasoning that investments will allow the survival of individuals who would otherwise have died, and who will go on to reproduce thus increasing the birth rate. This is wrong because even if the investments did directly save lives (this is rarely the case outside of emergency appeals due to natural disasters, either immediate e.g. earthquakes and cyclones, or long term, e.g. drought and famine) it is only by first decreasing the death rate that the birth rate can be brought down.

>>8471923
Secondly, the rate of resource usage per person must be reduced and this is, if anything, potentially even more difficult. As the poorer nations develop, their citizens will increasingly desire (and be in a position to obtain) the lifestyles of those in the developed world. If successful however, this would be disastrous. The level at which mineral resources must be extracted and energy resources used to sate the demands of the developed world is already well beyond sustainable and if the population peaks at the projected 10 billion AND the resources per person even comes close to the level enjoyed by those in rich nations today then the world will rapidly become difficult to inhabit. There must be wide-reaching cultural changes in terms of how much meat and rare earth metal is consumed by each person, and these changes must be communicated to the populations of the developing world as well - something that will certainly cause tensions with those already looking forward to living the richer lifestyle.

Essentially, this is a vastly difficult problem, perhaps the most difficult ever faced and certainly the widest reaching, as no one on earth can escape the consequences. Even with a broad sense of good will between people this would be monumentally challenging, but with the current pervasive climate of distrust, unease, nationalist tensions and trends of isolationism (even as the world becomes more interconnected than ever) it will be a Herculean task indeed.

Who do you mean ? The wests growth is small or stagnant . Its the non western Saharan , areas dense with negroes who are breeding litters of nigglets . Thanks to western medicine they live , and then get to come here to enrich (rape attack murder ) us , just like all those refugees , how many are working out of the millions ?'was it 12 last count? Say what you want but it is ridiculous .all the while we are made spend millions on foreign aid. Ireland spends millions . Despite our size. Honestly I dont know how much longer this warped system can sustain itself.
Hopefully the god EMPEROR TRUMP changes it all.

>>8470905
Its only africa that has a problem with birthrate way too high. The west has very small growth

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>>8471833
Societies are racial constructs. Bringing people from a society is not the answer. Its not like for like replacement , you will just make that country like them. They bring their beliefs and racial genetics and destroy that nations identity. People are not equal . They arent its science , iq is based on race. How else can you explain why Africa is still not agrarian ? Go to Rome and look at the colosseum built thousands of years ago do you think Africans could have ade this? Egyptians were white. And arabs have some similarity to us. Still goat fuckers though. Pic VERY related. This oh we can get workers myth has been disproven unless you want to live in a nation divided.

Pull-out games got weaker, accident kids' life spans extended as a form of karma.
More chemicals got put into food, more people developed stronger immune systems as a result of the chemicals.
Depression and suicide became a trend, antidepressants became trendier to share on tumblr.
1+1+1-1-1=1, 1+1+1-1=2

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cunts

>>8471847
I hear it's coming in January.

>>8470823
Being able to synthesize nitrogen. That enabled the fabric of fertilizer and exponentially grow our crops. More food = more people.
Longer life spans also derive from this food availability but medication plays a big role here as well.

>>8473714
>synthesize nitrogen

you mean fix atmospheric nitrogen, which is the process of on getting molecular nitrogen (N2) to react chemically, usually reduction to NH3 but any intermediate molecule is useful.

The long-term goal is to get N into complex organic compounds. It is nitrogen-containing functional groups which define the amino acids and allow complex protein structures to be formed.

Plain carbon is simply too stable and will only allow a limited number of shapes. You have to have nitrogen involved to get the fun legos.

Vaccines and - probably even more important - water sanitation and sewage treatment.

>>8472106
>Migrants cause crime
'No'

>http://migrantsandcitizens.org/recent/migrants-cause-crime/
This article explains, but I'll also pull out a few of its references:

>http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/period-ending-march-2014/stb-crime-stats.html
The rate of crime continues to fall as it has done every year since the '90s

>http://www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Bell_Machin_LSE_migration_2011.pdf
General summary of evidence, concludes that migrant flows are associated with reduced property crime

>https://contexts.org/articles/sampson/
In the US since the '90s migrant populations are less likely to be involved in criminal activity than the native population (a first generation migrant is 45% less likely to commit a violent crime than a third generation American)

>http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/immigration-and-crime-evidence-for-the-uk-and-other-countries/
A 1% rise in the number of asylum seekers in an area associated with a 1.1% rise in property crime, but this explicable by the legal barrier preventing asylum seekers from being allowed to work and hence asylum seekers being poorer, with poverty being a known correlate of increased property crime - rise not noted for migrants allowed to work, as detailed in:
>ftp://ftp.dondena.unibocconi.it/WorkingPapers/Dondena_WP052.pdf

>http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/immigration-and-crime-evidence-for-the-uk-and-other-countries/
No evidence showing any correlation between immigration and violent crime despite repeated studies

>http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1104.pdf
Crime and victimization rate lower in migrant enclaves (areas with migrant population above 30%) compared with areas of similar socioeconomic status but lower migrant population, regardless of ethnicity of inhabitant of enclave

>>8472106
>>8474596
Furthermore, at the time the Colosseum was built, northern Europe ('whites') were still living in huts made of sticks and pig shite and continued to do so for several hundred years afterwards, so I fail to see your point. The Egyptians were not white (nor were they black) but were, as evidenced by molecular biology, more or less the same as they are today. Nor were Romans and Greeks (themselves incredibly complex nationalities encompassing varied tribal roots and identities) 'white', seeing as their territories encompassed at times North Africa, the Middle East and even the borders of India.

Indeed, the notion of 'whiteness' and 'blackness', let alone 'European-ness' would have been as alien to a Roman or Greek as it is to a biologist or anthropologist today. Allegiance to a nation state and the division of humanity along lines of skin colour are conceptions that did not exist more than a couple of centuries ago, and it can only be hoped that they evaporate again within a similar time frame to make way for whatever new system it is we will need to be able to address the problems of the future.

>>8471944
>the rate of resource usage per person must be reduced
I think it should be increased so we just reach a correction faster. By reducing usage more people will just make up the difference.

>>8474626
The Holy Roman Empire was no holy, not Roman and not an empire. history is rewritten everyday. Even when you make a stew the ingredients are still separated. It works fine for stew but melting pots tend to become unglued eventually. My country is a melting pot but the first thing you notice in the population is that separation along ethnic and cultural lines is the norm not the exception.

>>8470823
>Food
modern agriculture tech
>medicine
modern medical tech

Modern medicine and technology is keeping people who would have died alive and able to breed. In some rural bumbfuck nowhere town, the people can probably get by without electricity. If you cut NYC off from electricity, the population would reduce by 95% within a year.

>>8470823
free shit for savages.

>>8474730
The rate of resource usage is independent of the number of people that exist. Availability of resources is by no means a limiting factor on growth rates at this time, so reducing usage will do just that.

I don't really see how the nomenclature of the HRE has any bearing on the argument at hand, and while culinary analogies may be intuitive the world is realistically too complicated to render down in such a way. I agree that it is in human nature to form and maintain tribal boundaries, but as previously noted even that doesn't necessitate conflict and in fact, in some cases, seems to prevent it.

>>8470889
how are you today?

>>8470823
science

LBTG is responsible for overpopulation

>>8470823
No wars + improved medicine + niggers = lots of niggers.

>>8470823
1. We are now able to cure, treat, and prevent many diseases

2. All throughout human history, we struggled to find enough food to eat. Now we have an overabundance of food.

>>8470823
We're growing and raising more food than any other period in history while simultaneously countering diseases better than ever before.

Incidentally, the organic movement will screw over both of those.