My mind is blown! Growth is deadly.

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17. You completely misunderstand this

Exponential growth is in fact the baseline model; there are modifiers, which are incorproated into the meta-model that generates the bifurcation fractal, but it all starts with exponential growth. The math revealed by the bifurcation fractal is seen all over the place in natural systems; management of deer populations which have to be culled by hunters, for example. The thing is the complex math wouldn't work if the simple math wasn't at its base. The fundamental problem is exponential growth. It cannot be sustained if the exponent outstrips the ability of natural death and other environmental factors to limit it. If the residual exponent after all such factors is added in is too high, ecosystem death results. There is no other possibility. The path to that will be extremely complex -- that's why they call it "chaos" theory -- but the math underlying it is now very solid.

If controlling growth is impossible then we are already the walking dead. The only question is just how bad the extinction event we are precipitating will be compared to the K-T or Permian events.