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Well, if you use relative rates of growth, following an exponential curve, yes, that happens.

If you use absolute rates of growth, following a linear curve, no, that's bullshit.

The article has no numbers, but appears very strongly to use the second definition.

> If you use absolute rates of growth

I'm not sure what an "absolute rate" (of growth) is, can you explain?

Aren't growth rates usually (always?) expressed as a percentage change of a variable over time? How could that be anything other than relative?

growth, definition: the act or process, or a manner of growing; development; gradual increase.

If something grows from 1 to 2 it doubled.

If something grows from 100 to 101 its growth was 1%.

In absolute terms it's the same amount.

So you got it backwards.