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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fatima, post: 1357099, member: 22143&quot;]On the first point, gold and silver are a world wide currency.&nbsp; It allowed American&#039;s to do things which they otherwise could not have done (effectively).&nbsp; For example.&nbsp; During the Civil War, the South did not have much in the way of industrial production.&nbsp; They addressed this trading gold for armaments.&nbsp; This is one of the reasons that gold coins minted from the Charlotte, NC mint are relatively rare.&nbsp;&nbsp; This gold ended up in Europe were it was melted down.&nbsp;&nbsp; It should be noted the Europeans would not accept Confederate money for payment.&nbsp; They understood the worth of that.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>On the second point,&nbsp; nature always prevents population growth from expanding at a fixed percentage rate forever.&nbsp; Lack of resources sees to that.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the case of humans, either more resources have to be exploited, or laws put in place to limit children to 1 child/couple (or less), or disease, starvation, etc takes care of it.&nbsp;&nbsp; All these examples exist in some form today.&nbsp;&nbsp; An extreme example is Easter Island.&nbsp; The inhabitant population expanded beyond what the island&#039;s resources could support and both the ecology and population collapsed.&nbsp;&nbsp; It happened in a very short time too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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