The Greatest Short Coming of the Human Race is our Inability to Understand the Exponential Function

"The Greatest Short Coming of the Human Race is our Inability to Understand the Exponential Function" by Dr. Albert A. Bertlett, Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder.

This is a series of 8 short videos on the topic of population growth, energy and environmental sustainability.

The video uses simple arithmetic illustration to demonstrate the consequences of overpopulation and some of the false facts that were often fed to us by country leaders, economist, and business magazines.

Highly recommended for anyone (of any age group) to go through the videos.

Hope this enlightens you as much as I do.

Some quotes from the videos,

To be successful with this experiment of human life on earth, we have to understand the laws of nature as they are encountered in the study of sciences and mathematics.

The First Law of Sustainability
Population growth and/or growth in the rate of the consumption of resources cannot be sustained.

Asimov:
In the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Human dignity cannot survive overpopulation.

Convenience and decency cannot survive overpopulation.

As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, it disappears. It doesn't matter if some dies, the more people there are, the less one individual matters.

Side note: Sometimes I wonder, is it religions that makes most people stop diving deep into problems? Because most of the time people will try to get away by comforting themselves that "things will eventually be better", "its fate", "its all planned", "the day will come"... and then, they stopped crunching their brain.