65G and Future Urban Warfare

[JASmith]

Illogical. The population does not increase because people are living longer. It increases because there are more births than deaths.

If no children were born each year, the population would not increase. It would decrease, regardless of increases in life expectancy...

True but wrong -- start with a stable population where the birth rate and death rates are equal. Then increase the life span by 20% and wihat happens?

The death rate will have decreased resulting in population growth.

The biggest example is China's attempt to lomit their population growth woth the "one child" policy. If I recall the open source article correctly, their population would have doubled over 50 years eaven if every family was limited to just one child.

Over the longer term, however, the "one child" policy would cause a dramtic decline in population.

The time constant of a few generations makes figuring these things out a bit challenging.