Arithmetic, Population and Energy

This has been called the most important video you will ever see. Is it? There is good reason for believing that claim to be an understatement. "Arithmetic, Population And Energy", also known as "Arithmetic, Energy And Population" is not a film as such but a classroom lecture, one the late Professor Bartlett is said to have delivered no less than seventeen hundred times.

At the beginning he tells his class he hopes to convince them that "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."

He will probably have convinced 99.999% of his students this is indeed the case; unfortunately for the rest of us, the politicians don't appear to be listening.

Mankind is already in deep trouble; if you want to do something positive about our predicament, you can begin by watching, listening and inwardly digesting the most important lecture delivered in the last Millennium or this. Then you can help spread the Gospel of Albert Bartlett, in particular his 21 laws of sustainability, to those who need to listen.

Professor Bartlett hits the nail on the head, and exposes a number of deceitful methods that are widely used placate an unthinking public.

Unfortunately he passed away in 2013.

The technical quality of copy I watched was extremely poor, but the content more than made up for that; a welcome change from most of the drivel we see, which is completely the opposite.

PLEASE WATCH THIS, and tell your friends to too; maybe Social Media can help to start people seeing through a lot of the misinformation that is being broadcast by people who should (and probably do) know better.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy had 42 as the Answer to the Universe, but maybe 70 is a better candidate.

If you don't remember anything else from this documentary, remember 70; divide 70 by any Percentage Growth Rate to get the No. of Years a quantity will take to Double;

5% Growth Doubles in about 14 years