Crash Course Chapter 3: Exponential Growth

In the Crash Course we will learn a few foundational Key Concepts. None are more important than exponential growth. Understanding this will greatly enhance our chances to form a better future.

Once an exponential function “turns the corner”, even though the percentage rate of growth might remain constant, and possibly quite low, the amounts do not. They pile up faster and faster.

Oil consumption, the US money supply, world population, worldwide water use, species extinction, and other critical areas all follow an exponential curve in their growth, and all have turned or will soon turn that critical corner.

Taken one at a time, any one of these areas could command the full attention of every earnest person on the face of the planet, but we need to understand that they are, in fact, all related and connected.