Thursday, April 26, 2012

Slowing crippling exponential growth

The move to a Four-Hour Work Day will bring many benefits, among them the slowing of exponential events that are crippling our world.
This YouTube clip discusses energy, population and exponential growth is The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See”.

Prof Albert A. Bartlett
The message is important, but those who need to see it are not watching or if they are, they are not listening.


Featured in the clip is the Professor Emeritus in Nuclear Physics at University of Colorado at Boulder, Prof Albert A. Bartlett.


He has been a member of the faculty of the University of Colorado since 1950. He was President of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1978 and in 1981 he received their Robert A. Millikan Award for his outstanding scholarly contributions to physics education.


In discussing exponential growth, Prof Bartlett said: "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

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