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The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See (part 1 of 8)
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Part 1 of a lecture by physicist Albert Bartlett on the exponential function and its consequences for population growth, resource use and energy. It argues that steady growth rates quickly lead to enormous quantities.
A perennial HN recommendation for building intuition about exponential growth, cited whenever endless growth, energy or population come up.
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