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Population Increases in Developing Countries
I would like to add the following, but Wikipedia should be completely factual, so this should be verified first:
One of the arguments used by the paper is that energy production per capita has already begun falling. It must be remembered that most of the recent population increases have been in developing countries, which would cause a decrease in energy production per capita, even if there was no effect on developed countries.
OK, but that would still result in a reduction in energy per capita. Doesn't falsify the theory.
Exile 12:39, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
That's exactly the point. This argument seems to imply a reduction in living standards, but it does not, because most of the population increases were in areas with below-average energy production per capita, so energy production per capita in developed countries might actually be increasing. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 09:24, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)