Thursday, September 26, 2019

arithmetic, population, and energy

among 'doomers' the name of al bartlett has long been revered thanks to a talk he began giving 50 years ago this month on the unsustainability of exponential growth on a finite planet. it's informative, interesting, provocative, and only a little over an hour long. the link below breaks it up conveniently into 8 short segments. watch it and see for yourself how quickly even small exponential growth leads to disaster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9znsuCphHUU&list=PLEF69FF82BB41F088

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