Reply #27: This subject is highly threatening to most people. [View All]

[Gregorian]

This is because it addresses LIMITS. Ie, responsible behavior. That translates to thinking rather than just freely doing.

I have suffered the same fate as your father. And worse. What a shame. Shooting the messenger.

Even with five years of engineering mathematics, I have lost so much of it that I am going to have to go back to the books just to get a feel for logarithms. Although the "70" rule for doubling is a great thing. But the biggest problem we face is an ignorant society living a modern lifestyle. I liken it to being a bike rider who commutes along side of cars. It became painfully obvious to me just how much power the average driver wields. It's like all the power that an Egyptian king could have ever asked for. So here we are with what amounts to an amplification of our being, and yet no control system (brains) to go with it. We blab about helmet laws, and yet all the while we're literally melting the planet we live on.

I'm almost saying that to a fair degree we should all have educations in engineering. It sounds stupid. But it's the only reason I know what happens when I flip a light switch. And why I know better than to leave it burning.

But the video takes this all to a different level. One I honestly didn't realize. And that is, even a 1% population growth rate per year would mean that we would be doubling our population every 70 years!!!

And another thing people (sorry, I realize I'm replying to your post and not going on a diatribe) don't get is the significance of the exponential curve, and where we are on it now versus back then. Back then we could do anything. Doubling our numbers did nothing. WITH RESPECT TO OUR LIMITED RESOURCES. But now, when we double... It's a disaster now. And it is because even that one percent growth is adding huge huge numbers to an already dying planet.

I post this as someone who almost can't take it any more. I honestly don't know how to personally handle it. It's why I posted the subject. Every car I hear is like a knife going in to me. I had to leave my home in the San Francisco area because I could no longer tolerate the low frequency rumble of a million cars every morning. That's how it's probably affecting others as well. I probably shouldn't have posted this last part.