[Skybird]

Nice find. It's always stunning me how little understanding there is in public of the exponential function when it comes to economic and environmental issues, and population growth.

It is implications from problems like this, and the implications, that led me to believe that voting in elections should not be considered a basic right, but a privilege for which one has to qualify by proving some basic knoweldge, as well as correct memory of political decisions and consequences of the past legislation periods. I honestely believe that uneducated or stupid people should not be allowed to vote, and that voting just by habit is counterproductive for demcoarcy - because by that people are contributing to increasing damage - and they do not even realise it.

You need a licence to handle explosives. You need a licence for dealing with drugs and poisons. But these can cause only local, small disasters if handled wrong. when you fly airplanes above the heads of the people below you, you nevertheless must fulfill a yearly minimum or must undergo frequent checkups of your pilot skills to show that you still are qulifified to do so without putting some local people at risk. In Europe at least, you need licences and need to show frequent use (Germany) when owning pistols or guns. But when potentially influencing the fate of a whole nation or cultural sphere - then no qualification needs to be proven at all...? And sentiments and traditions are allowed to distort any reasonable decision finding on whom to give power...?

Not popular to think that way, I know. But if our ways of doing things and having elections is so perfect and correct, I wonder why our current and future problems are constantly growing, and why we fail to find solutions, but contribute with our best effort and intention to even increase these problems and delay solutions. That politicians aim at getting the votes of those who do not know it better or unscrupulously vote for their own advantage and accepting the disadvanatge of others, should be considered as one of the major reasons.

The lack of understanding for the exponential function, is just a variation of another problem: that is not not looking sufficiently ahead into the future, or ign oring any future that lies outside one's own lifespan. And it seems the latter is one of the main drives of contemporary economic policies.
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Just watched the first part, maybe I will watch the others as well over the day.