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Originally Posted by eburacum45
Only the values calculated during the period of rapid industrialisation, an anomalous phase, show a near-future doomsday; exactly the same period when such statistical tools become available.
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No argument from me. A population with no growth at all would judge that they are likely to survive into the future as long as they have existed in the past. But they would still see the same Carter limit to the number of likely future lives. I agree the urgency has gone, but Carter's argument isn't undone.
Grant Hutchison