We have the projections. Not on disk, however, and I'll try to figure a
way to capture them. We don't have a scanner either and I'm not even sure
they would transmit thru the newsgp w/o some sort of graphics interface.
On Fri, 17 Feb 1995, John de Rivaz wrote:
> I have been asked for the reference to the oft-quoted "if all those who
> have ever died were resurrected the world's population would only
> double."
>> Flicking through my books, including Jack Parsons' "Population versus
> Liberty" has not produce it.
>> I do have graphs of world population increase 1000 to 1970 and they
> show a curve of the form y equals x to the power of one point
> something. (Not explicity stated in the text, at least if it was I
> didn't find it.)
>> Does anyone have an academically accepted equation that represents
> world growth, and can anyone suggest a mathematical method of using it
> to calculate the effect of resurrecting all the world's dead?
>> I have thought that it could be programmed assumpting some
> approximations:
>> 1. average lifespan is 30 years to 1700, 75 years after
>> 2. the lifespan of humanity is 10,000 years
>> 3. the initial population is zero at -10000 from the present
>> then take blocks of 30 years, calculate the total population by scaling off
> the graph obtained for the equation of growth and sum them all
> together until 75 years before the present.
>> read off the present population.
>> the ratio between the two figures is the required result.
>> --
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