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:I was wondering about that myself. It seems to be a suggestion that World War II was caused by world population outstripping resources, and brought back into balance by the war... but a graph of [http://edweb.sdsu.edu/wip/examples/gas2/idnex.htm U. S. population] looks pretty smooth, as does [http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/Contest/Results/2005/TEMIS/Population%20Design_files/image069.jpg world population]. There's a bit of a downward kink in U. S. population around World War II, but it isn't preceded by any obvious upward kink. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 09:53, 12 June 2007 (EDT)
:I was wondering about that myself. It seems to be a suggestion that World War II was caused by world population outstripping resources, and brought back into balance by the war... but a graph of [http://edweb.sdsu.edu/wip/examples/gas2/idnex.htm U. S. population] looks pretty smooth, as does [http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/Contest/Results/2005/TEMIS/Population%20Design_files/image069.jpg world population]. There's a bit of a downward kink in U. S. population around World War II, but it isn't preceded by any obvious upward kink. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 09:53, 12 June 2007 (EDT)
::Since the graphs' axes aren't labeled anyway, I think we can go ahead and read into them whatever we wish. [[User:Frederick|Frederick]] 10:49, 12 June 2007 (EDT)