Climatehistories, In 1969, the physicist Albert Bartlett gave a now famous lecture entitled Arithmetic, Population and Energy.👇
It begins with the line: "The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
In the context of global challenges such as #climatechange, pandemics & financial crises, the inability to understand exponential growth can lead to delayed responses, inadequate policies, and missed opportunities for intervention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1C9DyIi_8&ab_channel=kip399