Re: [FT][SG][DS][Background] Pop Sizes

> But I was wondering if anyone of the life science types out there has 
> the forumula for the abiotic carrying capacity of an environment... 
> I'm interested to see if I can figure out where population growth 
> slows or plateaus so my model should curb near some estimated 
> carrying capacity rather than continue unabated exponential growth.

will send off list
> 
> There seems to have been a lot of argument about what makes the major 
> powers.... and I can't help but think population base (tax base and 
> potential markets) have something to do with it, so a reasonable idea 
> of what population each state would have should give us an idea of 
> what they can afford (given the addition of a simple efficiency 
> factor to represent high tech, high affluence economies vs. low tech, 
> low prosperity ones). I don't care if you are technologically 
> superior - if I have 100 times your population, I should be able to 
> start to close that gap if I focus on that task. 

Population & technology, I'd say.  If I recall correctly, Brazil & India
have both had problems because the large population is, as it were,
multiplied by a low industrial/technological coefficient.