population growth

opposite

trolley problem

is posited to become infinite by friday, november 13th, 2026.

writen for an article in Science magazine, von Foerster predicted, )in what came to be known as the 'Doomsday Equation' ), that Friday Nov. 13th, a tounge-and-cheek prediction falling on his birthday, would be the date when the population explosion would run out of control.

is the idea that the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man'.[5]

is the result of extreme economic insecurity insofar as poor famers try to have as many sons as possible to keep them out of the hot sun and give them some form of subsistence in their old age.

In the first place I identify this ['the equilibrium of poverty'] with primitive agriculture, and two factors have been at work there. One is, of course, population growth. If you were a poor farmer in India, Pakistan, or in much of Africa, you would want as many sons as possible as your social security. They would keep you out of the hot sun and give you some form of subsistence in your old age. So, you have pressure for population growth that is, itself, the result of the extreme economic insecurity. This is something which hasn't been sufficiently emphasized.

population growth, n.All

population growth