Friday, May 22, 2020

Strength Through Exhaustion! Exponential Growth against a Finite Source: Why Western Civilization is inherently Doomed - we use the wrong math!

Revisiting Professor Albert Bartlett's classic physics lecture
I don't think he has any understanding of this very basic arithmetic.
Bartlett's dismissal of some energy expert.

David Brower called this Strength Through Exhaustion!
Another great Bartlett quote. Brower was an environmental activist and organizer and writer.
Berkeley native David R. Brower is considered by many to be the father of the modern environmental movement. Eighty-eight years of courageous, contentious, and joyful activism made Brower one of the most successful advocates the Earth has ever known.
He did the SAME lecture his whole career - over 1000 times - why? This math comes from the WRONG music theory!! It's logarithmic/exponential math. It inherently CRASHES and yet we continue to use it - and it doesn't just crash our population - with our basis of technology from this math - it crashes ALL life on the Planet!

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand this very basic arithmetic!
Albert Bartlett's final quote - did he put that on his grave stone!? I hope so.

http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2020/05/an-uncharted-21-23rd-centuries-climate-territory.html
 As we use more and more energy just to extract energy from our resource base, we are left with less ‘net energy’ to support financing of public goods and services. This has acted as a background ‘brake’ on the rate of economic growth for the world’s advanced industrial economies, which has also declined since the 1970s.
  Will Covid-19 end the age of Big Oil? by Nafeez Ahmed, 24 April 2020
 But the scale of debt keeping the industrial machine chugging along far outweighs our energy resource base. At some point, he warned, this unsustainable heyday was bound to grind to a halt.
 The conventional view is that we are now drowning in cheap oil. We have so much oil we are running out of storage. While marginally true, this view fails to recognise that the dynamics of the crisis are rooted in the deepening ‘biophysical’ constraints that have emerged from having shifted to forms of fossil fuel energy which are, ultimately, far more expensive and difficult to extract than ever before. And that is why many pundits have not realised that the current ‘oil glut’ is a precursor to an unprecedented supply crunch. Oil companies are now caught between a rock and a hard place.
 In such a post-Covid-19 world, the resurgence of economic demand amid a permanently decimated oil industry would likely drive new price hikes. The oil glut is paving way for an era of long-lasting oil scarcity from which there may be no recovery.
 a ‘bailout’ cannot resolve the industry’s problems
 What if we had created new hubs of local, organic agriculture reducing our dependence on traditional supply chain networks?
Debt is rising at a rate 10 times than the previous 2008 Great Crash bubble - $16 trillion rise in central bank debt in just a few months!

 In fact, governments have taken out nearly $16 trillion dollars of debt in the last few months.

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