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This is a lecture on the consequences of exponential growth with regard to hydrocarbon use and population. A virtuoso performance. I have returned to the pessimistic camp.

Dieoff.

[skiwi]

Lousy network connection keeps timing out even with my highspeed cable
What am I missing. Is it similar to this doco I watched recently

Arithmetic, Population & Energy (Environmental Damage, Energy Crisis) (Dr. Albert A. Bartlett lecture) (1994) (V).avi

The Hubbert's Peak page has a good section on him and his papers

http://www.hubbertpeak.com/bartlett/
  
"Over the years, few people have contributed as much to physics education as Albert Bartlett [Professor Emeritus, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO]. Readers of The Physics Teacher regularly use snippets from his "et cetera..." column in their classes, and his celebrated lecture on exponential growth has fascinated well over 1000 audiences.

[MonteQuest]

Yes, this is the same lecture Arithmetic, Population & Energy by Albert Bartlett. I was able to watch the whole thing although the picture quality got worse as time went on. Very good explanation of exponential growth with the math to go with it.

MQ

[khebab]

Very good stuff! should be part of the "PO for dummies" kit.

[Agren]

I'll add it to the PO primer, I'll have to take your word for it at the moment, I can't see the video myself, getting network probs every time I try

[Cool Hand Linc]

This was very interesting. Lots to think about.

[Agren]

Still can't see it

If anyone finds another source for the video, plese post it.

[0mar]

Informative. Any seasoned reader of peak oil is aware of these issues, but this video puts it in a plain, easy to understand fashion and has a great job of calling out economists/optimistis who distort and flat out lie about data.

[Ayoob_Reloaded]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MissingLink', 'T')his was very interesting. Lots to think about.

[Ayoob_Reloaded]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', 'T')hanks so much for posting that. It was absolutely wonderful. I have passed it on to numerous people outside this forum. Thank you again.

[lowem]

For those of you who know how to get this :
Arithmetic,.Population.&.Energy.(Environmental.Damage,.Energy.Crisis).(Dr..Albert.A..Bartlett.lecture).(1994).avi

Also, see link :
http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/ert/symposi ... tlett.html

[skiwi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Agren', 'S')till can't see it

If anyone finds another source for the video, plese post it.

[joe]

Maybe this lecture from Campell himself could be interesting as well?

http://video.tu-clausthal.de/vortraege/peak-oil/

A lecture held 2000 in Germany - just some basics...

Have a nice day,

Joe

[Ayoob_Reloaded]

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There's a couple good threads at www.fourthturning.com as well, but if PO is the 4T, then I don't think it matters much about which generation we're at and how the Gray Warriors react to it.

I'm a GenX'er according to their literature, but I don't feel very apathetic these days. I'm very much into action.

[clv101]

I just watched the Dr. Albert A. Bartlett lecture, fantastic!!! Thanks for the link.

[Falconoffury]

Alright, I can't seem to get the video running on my dialup connection, I don't know how to download from lowem's link, and I tried skiwi's link, but there are so many pages I had to try the search function for bartlett, and the search function doesn't work. A little help?

[lowem]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'A')lright, I can't seem to get the video running on my dialup connection, I don't know how to download from lowem's link, and I tried skiwi's link, but there are so many pages I had to try the search function for bartlett, and the search function doesn't work. A little help?

[Falconoffury]

I don't think there's a such thing as a little bit more than dialup. You either have dialup or you have something 30+ times faster. For me, a little bit, is defined as at most 20% increase.

But that aside, talk about user unfriendly. It wouldn't be hard for me to get at the video if it was on regular web space. I remember early days on the internet where you didn't have to worry about crazy things like torrents, and you could download 400 MB files of regular http at a solid 48 kb without any problems. Now people are going over bandwidth limits with regular http files and it seems like everyone is turning to torrents. Peak bandwidth anyone?

Whew, what a tangent. I was able to view the video in slide show form by changing my real player settings. I have one of the worst outlooks on the future in this forum, and even I learned something about how the exponential function affects growth. It just reinforces my dark predictions. Population growth will become 0 and likely negative one day. It is inevitable.

The best part of the video was when he showed a list of things that grow population and reduce it. He said that nature will choose from the right side of the list one day no matter what we do. Fortunately, it is possible for us to make the choice from that list. I think it's time to stop guessing at how the future will be and start thinking about what to choose from the list of ways that populations go down. Do we want abortions, forced contraception, war, disease, famine, or anything from that list? Surely, we can add to the list in discussion, but the day that the human race as a whole can decide how it wants to reduce population will mark a huge point in human achievement on par with the invention of the wheel. Up until now, we have almost always let nature choose from the list for us. Will we ever have the wisdom to make our own choice from the list?

[lowem]

Sorry, I was kinda kidding about the 'little bit more" part. Though there *is* ISDN which is 64 kbps (1.1x), dual-channel ISDN at 128 kbps (2.3x), and the lower-end DSL plans which start from 256 kbps (4.6x).

It's only the cable and higher-end DSL plans which are at 1500 kbps and higher that are really 30x faster, and then of course there's Japan with their fiber-to-the-home installations ...

Well, anyway, at least you've watched the video. Me, I'm still downloading the 400 MB file - it's not exactly The Matrix (for the record I have the original of that one! ) or something lol, so there're fewer sources.

[Itch]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he best part of the video was when he showed a list of things that grow population and reduce it. He said that nature will choose from the right side of the list one day no matter what we do. Fortunately, it is possible for us to make the choice from that list. I think it's time to stop guessing at how the future will be and start thinking about what to choose from the list of ways that populations go down. Do we want abortions, forced contraception, war, disease, famine, or anything from that list? Surely, we can add to the list in discussion, but the day that the human race as a whole can decide how it wants to reduce population will mark a huge point in human achievement on par with the invention of the wheel. Up until now, we have almost always let nature choose from the list for us. Will we ever have the wisdom to make our own choice from the list?