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Fascinating Simple Mathematics & Think for yourself : "Arithmetic, Population, and Energy." Dr. Albert A. Bartlett

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Watch all of the videos, please, for some rather frightening predictions.

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Comment: In this video, Dr. Albert A. Bartlett stresses the idea that, " We can't let others do the thinking for us".

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Pohat · 2012-03-05T10:58:34Z

I don't see how an argument that follows in the footsteps of Parson Malthus or Paul Erlich, who also said that "mathematics inexorably proves that population growth is a disaster and cannot be sustained because the 'resources are finite'" is the most important video I will see. Judging from his "students" they appear as bored as I was in watching this rehash of historically discredited garbage.

This geezer should have lived long enough to know that "resource" is not a stand alone concept. He even obliquely references the fact that it was the invention of a technology capable of using oil (which was in the ground for how may millions of years without a technology to use it?) that defeated Parson Malthus's similar argument: oil provided a means of feeding the increased population--a feat Malthus swore could not be done "because of the mathematics."

I don't know whether to laugh or cry when you ask me for money then push articles repeating the genocidalist message of the "Georgia Standing Stones ("we need to destroy billions of people to survive") and claim to know what you are talking about.

I thought all intelligent people knew that the concepts of "non-renewable resources" and "interest rate banking" were long ago joined at the hip (as Joseph Farrell argues in his book on the subject). Certainly you know that the means of "free energy" were invented long ago by Tesla, based on a new physics you seem to have never heard of, and that this physics was suppressed , of course, by J, P Morgan (yes, the banker) who instead promoted Einstein. Later, as Constable said in his 1977 book on the subject (studiously ignored by Laura), when confronted with this physics Einstein "proved he preferred bombs." So the bankers' physics and the Colorado geezer's arguments go hand in hand, don't they?

The truth is, that "resources" are defined by human cognition and inventiveness and are ever-changing as a function of that same attribute of humanity; they are "not crap in the ground that cannot be renewed therefore you will die." That is the sort of argument you get from a jerk who does not know enough to call a plumber when the bathroom in his apartment house is too small (see the video if you can stomach it).

Laura · 2012-03-05T14:47:57Z

Don't let the door hit you on the way out... you are obviously an authoritarian follower. As Bob Altemeyer describes them:

They are highly submissive to established authority, aggressive in the
name of that authority, and conventional to the point of insisting
everyone should behave as their authorities decide. They are fearful and
self-righteous and have a lot of hostility in them that they readily
direct toward various outgroups. They are easily incited, easily led,
rather un-inclined to think for themselves, largely impervious to facts
and reason, and rely instead on social support to maintain their
beliefs. They bring strong loyalty to their in-groups, have
thick-walled, highly compartmentalized minds, use lots of double
standards in their judgments, are surprisingly unprincipled at times,
and are often hypocrites. But they are also Teflon-coated when it comes
to guilt. They are blind to themselves, ethnocentric and prejudiced, and
as close-minded as they are narrow-minded.

rs1 · 2012-03-05T16:59:43Z

WOW. If you removed your head from your posterior, nothing would change because you are wound up inside your own alimentary canal more times than I can count...

Dude. The planet earth has a finite mass. Human cognition and inventiveness can only consume 100 percent of the mass of the earth. This is true even if you have "free energy".

I'm thinking you walked into the wrong bar...

Third_Density_Learner · 2012-03-07T01:44:46Z

This is perhaps one of the most clueless responses I have read in quite some time. It is clear you didn't really watch any of the videos properly, and it's clear that your grasp of simple mathematics is severely lacking.

And your "free energy" argument is completely irrelevant to the matter at hand. How is having unlimited access to energy going to solve Earth's problems of overpopulation, and ever-diminishing food sources?

lmaoingeneral · 2012-03-05T20:22:38Z

I need his plumber's phone number...

and a blue pill.

Admit there is something beyond their control and understanding? Doubtful.

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