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MORE OR LESS

The strategies for addressing global environmental issues are clear: Efficiencies must be improved, personal consumption reduced and renewable energy embraced. But have environmental advocates really got it right. Or are we being led up the garden path.

More or Less explores the fundamentals of consumption and uncovers some basic truths that are... well... rather inconvenient.

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CONSUMPTION GROWTH 101

Consumption Growth 101 covers three topics that are essential elements of any debate on environmental issues.

    1.    The mathematical fundamentals of exponential growth.

    2.    Exponential growth in the closed system that is the earth.

    3.    The essential ingredient in any plan for tackling consumption growth.

  

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Prefer an abbreviated version?  Here is a summary.

Where does this lead us?  A short follow-up discussion outlines where the logic leads. 

Like to run the numbers for yourself? This tutorial covers the mathematics behind Consumption Growth 101 and the exponential growth calculator will do the number crunching for you.

 

 

Test your knowledge of exponential growth with the Exponential Growth Test.

 

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