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Norman Wells wrote

A 40% growth in world population in the next
22 years, and you say it's not exponential?

I can only assume you have no understanding of the term.

The smallest exponent is 2

That's not correct, it can be below 2, like 1.5 etc.

The term exponential actually refers to the slope,
not the percentage change. And when the world
fertility rate has HALVED between 1960 and 2015
its silly and ignorant to claim that the world
population is still increasing exponentially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...#1960_and_2015

and the population is not "squaring" any time soon
(going to 36 billion) although it is increasing at an
alarming rate. That is the real cause of global warming

It remains to be seen if there is actually any global warming,
let alone whether that is due to the total population.

and most other problems on the planet.

Even sillier.

Man has simply done too good a job of controlling hunger,

It has in fact done one hell of a job controlling hunger.
Famine used to be endemic and is now only seen when
the country has completely imploded into social chaos
and civil war..

disease

It has also done one hell of a job controlling infectious
disease too and even something like ebola now only
produces a small blip in a particular area and has no
real effect on population anymore, unlike we saw
with influenza just after WW1 had ended.

and nuclear weapons.

Its done a hell of a job controlling nuclear weapons too.
NOT ONE has been used in warfare since the first two.

It will be a self correcting problem tho.

Yes, the increasing population certainly has been that with
the world fertility rate HALVING between 1960 and 2015
with only China actually taking explicit steps to change that.