Its exponential nature means that no trade-offs in lifestyle or environmental quality can balance for long the demands of unbridled population growth. All the effort expended on things like increasing crop yields and reducing soil erosion are doomed to failure unless the root cause of the problem is addressed. This change of interpretation shows the dangers of cryptic compression and suggests that there are at least two sides to the choice of fibers, as there are to most choices. Key rhetorical methods are to mention the items that you want to influence people first, so they will sink in thoroughly, or last, so they will be the most recently encountered data, and to limit the total amount of information imparted at one time. This has become a fine political art.
Much humor arises from abrupt divergences from expectations.
A passenger fell from an airplane. Fortunately, with a parachute. Unfortunately, it didn't open. Fortunately, there was a haystack below. Unfortunately, it contained a pitchfork.