Ecological Economics is about the interaction between humans and the environment via the economy. It starts from the premise that the economy is limited by the constraint of our planet's finite resources. It rejects the mainstream economics goal of continued economic growth and proposes instead a steady state economy.

Exponential growth

This was the most unexpected source of inspiration for a lecture I wanted to give on exponential growth. Albert Bartlett summed it all up far better than I could.
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is its inability to understand the exponential function". You can watch this as a 57 minute lecture or watch in 8 separated parts with updated slides. I recommend the second option. (http://www.albartlett.org/presentations/arithmetic_population_energy_video1.html)

On you tube is is dubbed "the most important video you will ever watch" and I don't think that is much of an exaggeration.


For further information on Al Bartlett go to: http://www.albartlett.org/index.html
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