The single biggest problem facing the human race today is of growth: growth of population and growth of consumption of the finite resources we have on Earth.
Whilst the MSM paints lovely pictures for us of a seemingly endless supply of resources, the mathematics they spout, when investigated, are utter nonsense. As a species, we're obsessed with growth. Economic growth is our God. People even refer to growth as stability. "the economy has a stable 5% growth rate." It's what we're told from above that is good. Growth is what we strive for.
I'd like to share something with you all, regarding first our population growth and second our energy consumption. It's taken from Dr. Albert A. Bartlett's lecture on "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy" which I posted some time ago.
Imagine we have a bottle and there's a single bacterium inside. The bacteria double every minute. We start with the single bacterium at 11am and at 12pm the bottle is full. The bacteria has a steady growth rate (the doubling time of 1 minute).
At what point is the bottle half full?
11:59am. Only one minute before the bottle is completely full.
So the question is, at what point would a bacterium in the bottle realise they are running out of space? At 11:58? 11:57? 11:56? at 11:55, the bottle would only be 1/32nd full (~3%)... at that point, five minutes from the filling point, would the bacteria really see themselves running out of room?
The doubling time of the human race is currently at 53 years (1.3% growth). What does that mean for the future of the human race?
Well, in just 780 years, the world population would grow to a density of 1 person for every square metre of dry land on earth. in 2,400 years, the mass of the people on the planet would equal the mass of the planet itself.
Scary stuff. We're fastly approaching 11:59am and we have absolutely no idea how close we are to running out of space.
Isaac Asimov said: "Democracy cannot survive over population, Human Dignity cannot survive over population. Convenience and decency cannot survive over population. As you put more people into the world the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies, the more people there are, the less on individual matters."
It gets worse when we couple this growth with our energy consumption, which I'll look at in the next post.
Whilst the MSM paints lovely pictures for us of a seemingly endless supply of resources, the mathematics they spout, when investigated, are utter nonsense. As a species, we're obsessed with growth. Economic growth is our God. People even refer to growth as stability. "the economy has a stable 5% growth rate." It's what we're told from above that is good. Growth is what we strive for.
I'd like to share something with you all, regarding first our population growth and second our energy consumption. It's taken from Dr. Albert A. Bartlett's lecture on "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy" which I posted some time ago.
Imagine we have a bottle and there's a single bacterium inside. The bacteria double every minute. We start with the single bacterium at 11am and at 12pm the bottle is full. The bacteria has a steady growth rate (the doubling time of 1 minute).
At what point is the bottle half full?
11:59am. Only one minute before the bottle is completely full.
So the question is, at what point would a bacterium in the bottle realise they are running out of space? At 11:58? 11:57? 11:56? at 11:55, the bottle would only be 1/32nd full (~3%)... at that point, five minutes from the filling point, would the bacteria really see themselves running out of room?
The doubling time of the human race is currently at 53 years (1.3% growth). What does that mean for the future of the human race?
Well, in just 780 years, the world population would grow to a density of 1 person for every square metre of dry land on earth. in 2,400 years, the mass of the people on the planet would equal the mass of the planet itself.
Scary stuff. We're fastly approaching 11:59am and we have absolutely no idea how close we are to running out of space.
Isaac Asimov said: "Democracy cannot survive over population, Human Dignity cannot survive over population. Convenience and decency cannot survive over population. As you put more people into the world the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies, the more people there are, the less on individual matters."
It gets worse when we couple this growth with our energy consumption, which I'll look at in the next post.
