65G and Future Urban Warfare

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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.

Faulty reasoning. The population growth would result only from births, not from increased life span.

To borrow from your example, start with a stable population where the birth rate and death rates are equal.

Then cut the birth rate to zero, increase the life span by 100% (or even 200%), and what happens?

The population would decrease, not increase.

Population growth results only from births, not extended life span.