This is absolutley the most incredible lecture I have ever heard. It explores the idea that one of the hardest things for humans to understand is the exponential function in relation to how fast the world population is growing and the resources humans use. It’s titled Arithmetic, Population and Energy and is given by Dr. Albert Bartlett a professor from The University of Colorado in Boulder Colorado.Please watch it and leave some comments.
Here are some great quotes from the end of the lecture. The last one I have pulled from a documentary that I posted previously titled Money as Debt which has become painfully clear as true after having listened to the video above.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
It is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting. H.L. Mencken
The chief source of problems is solutions. Eric Sevareid
Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. Kenneth Boulding
Here is a link too the video on google.