re: Just watched Infinity War ***Spoliers***

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Because without some limitations forcing them to improve with conservation, you begin to enable wastefulness and you make the snaps have to be more and more frequent. While the populations become more indulgent. And you saw the damage just the one snap did to the glove.

Let’s say a planet has 10 years of resources at a given population. I snap my fingers and double them. The planet now has less than 20 years of resources due to exponential growth. I’m going to use “one years” worth this year, 1.15 “years worth” the next, and so on.

But if I half the population, the consumption rate is reduced and the number applied to the growth rate as well. With the additional time allowing for to develop technology you can expect it to last longer than 20 years. Even if the growth rate is such that it is still less than 20 years, you would expect a longer time interval allowed here than trying to sustain more organisms for longer.

Another way to think about it is the Black Death. Had it not occurred, you probably could add another billion mouths or so to feed. But instead, it set back population growth by more than 150 years.

A far more profound impact than just doubling resources.

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Volvagia

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Has apparently thought this through much like Thanos. Let's make sure he never gets the gauntlet...