How Simple Arithmetic Shows Us Exponential Growth Cannot Be Perpetual Without Running Up Against Finite Resources

I hope you will enjoy this 8 part series lecture with Dr. Albert Bartlett as much as I did. Just watch the first five minutes of Part 1 and see if you can follow along. If you can, you will savor the remainder of Part 1 and the other 7 parts of the same lecture.

This lecture shows you the problem with exponential non-stop growth without thinking critically about a finite set of natural resources.

You need to watch the whole series and think about the naysayers who tell you Peak Oil, overpopulation, Global Warmth, rising sea levels, etc., are nothing to worry about.

Drill, Baby, Drill, is not the answer.

Just watch how one great teacher takes simple math and shows you why you should always question Authority and Mainstream Media sources. Especially interesting is how the good Professor, Dr. Bartlett, shows you without any question why Peak Oil is going to end our profligate ways of wasting Energy.

I only wish this series was given today, so the good professor would throw in some comments about the Global Credit Crisis and the Housing Crash which his simple Arithmetic . . . used inherently by many an astute blogger (and posters on Motley Fool's old Misheldo board) . . . helped untrained Economists to fortell what was going to happen to this Country with unchecked and unregulated exponential EZ Credit and fractional banking.

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