{"id":256,"date":"2010-12-05T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zerga.dyndns.org\/wordpress\/?p=256"},"modified":"2010-12-05T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T22:00:30","slug":"humans-have-a-dangerous-problem-with-arithmetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/05\/humans-have-a-dangerous-problem-with-arithmetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans have a dangerous problem with arithmetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our problem is our inability to understand the exponential function&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado at Boulder gave a lecture many years ago (as you can see by the crappy VHS quality of the video) about the problem we humans face with over-population and our growing demand of resources, which are limited and just can not keep up with economic growths. Basically we are doomed to create problems over time &#8211; and he explains this with very simple arithmetics. Dont get fooled by the guy&#8217;s appearance or the way he talks &#8211; the topic is most interesting and he presents it in a way everybody should be able to understand&#8230; at least I could not stop watching the whole lecture. so what are we going to do about it?<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to watch all 8 parts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&amp;feature=&amp;p=6A1FD147A45EF50D&amp;index=0&amp;playnext=1\" target=\"_blank\">youtube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&amp;feature=&amp;p=6A1FD147A45EF50D&amp;index=0&amp;playnext=1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our problem is our inability to understand the exponential function&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Albert Bartlett of the University of Colorado at Boulder gave a lecture many years ago (as you can see by the crappy VHS quality of the video) about the problem we humans face with over-population and our growing demand of resources, which are [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[113,36,114,37,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zerga.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}