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by defrost 861 days ago
> Are you daft?

No. I still recall studying population dynamics, predator | prey cycles, etc as part of non linear dynamics in mathematics classes back in the 1980s.

> But once they dip below the magic number of 2.1, then population declines.

That magic number can change.

It's relatively easy for anyone to find observational examples of populations with adaptive reproductive rates.

> I don't know any other way to explain it.

Perhaps you might try studying mathematics.

> Because I don't belong to a death cult that hates humanity.

The question was about life on earth, not specifically humanity, the notion that you belong to a humanity hating death cult is frankly one that would not occur to most people .. but here you are going straight there.

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> That magic number can change.

Which goes back to my original comment, where I talk about for it to change, the little girls of the youngest generation have to grow up and choose to have more children than their parents. They all have to choose this simultaneously, or the few that do choose it have to choose to have far, far more than 2.1 themselves.

Both of these scenarios are so outlandish, that you keep dancing around it, pretending that I'm describing it incorrectly. You don't want to think about it, or don't want others to think about it, or you just aren't capable... I can't tell which.

It'd be laughable, if I didn't think you were an enemy of humanity.