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What's going on? You'll just have to watch to see what's so damn amazing about what he (Prof. Albert Bartlett) has to say.
When I saw this lecture at a conference in 1995, I came out blasted, thinking "This needs to be required listening for
every person on the planet. Nothing else will matter if we don't understand this." The presenter is Albert Bartlett,
a retired Physics prof. at U of Colorado-Boulder.
The presentation is titled "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy," and I introduce it to my students as "The most boring
video you'll ever see, and the most important." But then again, after viewing it most said that if you followed along with
what Bartlett is saying, it's quite easy to pay attention, because the content is so damn compelling.
If you forward this to everyone you know, we might actually stand a chance in staving off disaster in the global finance
system, peak oil, climate change, and every other resource issue you can think of. Without a widespread under-
standing of what Bartlett's talking about, I think we won't be able to dodge ANY of those issues.
BE ABSOLUTELY SURE you catch the parts about "the bacteria in the bottle" (in Part 3) and the list comparing things that add
to the problem and things that address the problem. If we don't choose from that right-hand column, nature will choose for us.
I for one, would rather we be the ones making the choice.
https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6A1FD147A45EF50D
What's going on? You'll just have to watch to see what's so damn amazing about what he (Prof. Albert Bartlett) has to say.
When I saw this lecture at a conference in 1995, I came out blasted, thinking "This needs to be required listening for
every person on the planet. Nothing else will matter if we don't understand this." The presenter is Albert Bartlett,
a retired Physics prof. at U of Colorado-Boulder.
The presentation is titled "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy," and I introduce it to my students as "The most boring
video you'll ever see, and the most important." But then again, after viewing it most said that if you followed along with
what Bartlett is saying, it's quite easy to pay attention, because the content is so damn compelling.
If you forward this to everyone you know, we might actually stand a chance in staving off disaster in the global finance
system, peak oil, climate change, and every other resource issue you can think of. Without a widespread under-
standing of what Bartlett's talking about, I think we won't be able to dodge ANY of those issues.
BE ABSOLUTELY SURE you catch the parts about "the bacteria in the bottle" (in Part 3) and the list comparing things that add
to the problem and things that address the problem. If we don't choose from that right-hand column, nature will choose for us.
I for one, would rather we be the ones making the choice.
https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6A1FD147A45EF50D
