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Article #40The scary mathematics behind energy depletion and population growth
From: GreenLifeInnovators
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:11
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:11
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Dear fellow "greenies" Recently I came across a series of 8 video-clips on YouTube showing a lecture with Dr Albert Bartlett, Professor Emeritus in physics at the University of Boulder, Colorado about arithmetic, population growth and energy depletion. Usually a lecture by an old professor in front of a group of students is not something one would consider to be a terrifying experience. But this perspective, that he is communicating, really is. Not only does Dr Bartlett explain why we are in much bigger trouble than most people think. He also explains why the nature of exponential growth is such, that we will not see the problems until a very short time until we run into them. This lecture goes to the very core of our challenges ahead. You don't have to possess university level skills in mathematics to follow his lines of reasoning, but below high school level you would probably not get too much out of it. For your convenience, we have embedded all of the 8 video clips on one page on our blog. You can find them here: http://blog.green-life-innovators.org/2009/11/07/the-brutal-end-of-the-growth-paradigm/ If you, like we do, find the message that Dr Bartlett delivers in this video of the utmost importance to the human race, then please do not keep it to yourself, but share the information about this lecture with friends and acquaintances, through email, online forums and social media. Yea, and write to your politicians and the media about it too. Kind regards Vidar Kristiansen Green Life Innovators - Green tech the Open Source way http://www.green-life-innovators.org/
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