IN the light of the 'geometric progression' characterising recent increases in the earth's human population, would any of your mathematically minded readers care to venture a 'guesstimate' as to the rise in the present total, by the end of this century, assuming no intervening concerted effort on the part of homo sapiens to reverse the trend?
J TIPPLE
Roundway Gardens
Devizes
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