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patman_007 t1_jdzxfql wrote

Reply to comment by GetOffMyLawn1729 in Estimates suggest population growth rate to peak at 8.6 billion by madrid987

The article flips back and forth. But looking at some other info it is the population that will peak, not the growth rate.

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turd_vinegar t1_je0t6kh wrote

Growth rate should peak and decline before population peaks. Unless there is some cataclysmic event that drives it down suddenly, like a nuclear war.

Someone could argue that there is a time interval that when tracked in nano seconds displays a sudden drop in growth rate before those hypothetical millions perished, but this is more pedantic than practical and wouldn't give much insight into how society was changing at that time.

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