This month’s
discussion Beneath the Wisteria focusses
on energy and thanks to a Tatura friend, Alfred Heuperman, we learn about this
YouTube clip that discusses energy, population and exponential growth in “The Most IMPORTANT Video You'll Ever See”.
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| Prof Albert A. Bartlett |
Thanks Alfred, the message is
important, but those who need to see it are not watching or if they are, they
are not listening.
Featured in the clip is the Professor Emeritus in Nuclear Physics
at University of Colorado at Boulder, Prof Albert A. Bartlett.
He has been
a member of the faculty of the University of Colorado since 1950. He was
President of the American Association of Physics Teachers in 1978 and in 1981
he received their Robert A. Millikan Award
for his outstanding scholarly contributions to physics education.
In
discussing exponential growth, Prof Bartlett said: "The greatest shortcoming of
the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
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