Part 1 of a lecture by physicist Albert Bartlett on the exponential function and its consequences for population growth, resource use and energy. It argues that steady growth rates quickly lead to enormous quantities.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: A perennial HN recommendation for building intuition about exponential growth, cited whenever endless growth, energy or population come up.

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