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Surplus energy grows babies
Judge
Doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Causation versus correlation.
There's a general consensus going back to Malthus that "poor people have the most babies and are responsible for overpopulation." You see it every day or two on this forum where someone is complaining about all the black/brown/yellow babies.
But yet poor people have less access to energy than wealthier people.
So how exactly is surplus energy causing a population boom?
Congressman
Only when conditions improve enough for larger numbers of their procreations to survive.Originally Posted by Miradus
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Young: Have time, have ambition, have no money.
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Merchant
When I get home from work, I'm too tired to make babies.
Maybe being poor means you DO have surplus energy. :D
Merchant
Maybe it's because the lights are always out.
Esquire
We have so much surplus energy that we can now pay humans to stay home and breed.
I'm not sure it all has to do with "Surplus Energy" but advancements in technology as well as a warmer climate always lead to higher populations. One event where we dont grow crops for 1 year and populations will decline rapidly.
Congressman
Sanitary water stops babies from dying, that's why the population went up. People aren't having more babies, they just are burying fewer infants.
Surplus energy actually destroys birthrates. If people have nothing to do once the sun sets, then a lot more babies are made.
But if people fall asleep watching American Idol and playing video games, a lot less babies are made.
If you want to lower the world's population, then get electricity to all the houses in the 3rd world!!!
Judge
being poor does not mean one is lazy.
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Judge
That old myth is apparently live and well here at TOL.
If you're poor, it's your own fault because you're either too lazy or too stupid to make money.
Judge
And one more mind bogeling lede (title) is added to the TOL archives
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
“As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.”
"You think a wall as solid as the earth separates civilisation from barbarism. I tell you the division is a sheet of glass."
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