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Originally Posted by lowercasecaps
Im not a math guy, please explain this.
This means that I read an article in the New Yorker about food scarcity where they referenced Thomas Malthus who said that famine was inevitable because the math of human existence did not add up: the means of subsistence grew only arithmetically (1, 2, 3), whereas population grew geometrically (2, 4, 8).
And I tried to be cute and do a cheap rip off/level in this thread.
Last edited by allinontheturn; 11-25-2008 at 07:30 PM.
Reason: Of course Malthus was wrong.