Change is Coming (and not just from Obama)

Linked below is a one hour video presentiation on how your failure to understand the exponential function will kill the world. Really. I saw it recently posted to Reddit with the title "The most IMPORTANT video EVER." This time all those screaming capitals might just be right.

Here's a very tiny preview -- at the current rate of growth, in what year will there be one person for every square meter of dry land on the Earth? Hint: the year stars with a "2" and only has four digits. What is so compelling about this video is that it is not a "screaming lunatic left-wing green-pinko" complaining about global climate change or saving the animals (not that there's anything wrong with that...). The video consists of nothing more than a mild-mannered old professor of physics running some equations, explaining his data and inputs and assumptions, etc. Where there is uncertainty, he calls it out -- but notes that there is no comfort in even the most rosy look at the numbers.

There is no mistaking the conclusion: our society's time is up -- very, very soon. Radical change is coming, starting now, and probably continuing for the next 100 years or more -- we may be agents of that change, and we might have some ability to shape the outcome, but change will come whether we wish for it or not.

Part 1 of the talk is shown here -- watch all 8 parts of the video here (it totals about 1 hour) -- I'll be out shopping for guns and canned food...