Guatemala has 12 million inhabitants, 1.5 million of whom live in the USA. I learned today in an Economics class that Guatemala's population doubles every thirty years. That means in thirty years this small country will have 24 million inhabitants. The carrying capacity of humans is around 36 million inhabitants here. In less than one hundred years, Guatemala is going to have too many people for the land. And I thought 12 million was a lot.
My professor, Dr. Von Walden, once quoted Dr. Albert Bartlett, "the greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
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- "The power of one is above all the power to believe in yourself, often beyond any ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, etc. First with the head, then with the heart, more than mixing brains with guts, it means thinking beyond the powers of normal concentration and daring your courage to follow your thoughts." -Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One
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